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THE HOMELYN RAY. 



THE HOME, SAXD RAY, AND SPOTTED RAY. 



l^a'ia maculata. Sand Jiay, Montagu, Wern. Mem. vol. ii. p. 426. 



,, miraletus, Mirror Bay, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 103. 



,, Tubus, Rough Rarj, ,, ,, ,, pi. 20. 



,, oculatit, Mirror Ray, Flem. Brit. An. p. 172, sp. 26. 



,, maculata. Spotted Ray, Jenvns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 514, sp. 203. 



This smootli-skinnccl spotted Ray, called Raia lavis 

 and Homelyn so long ago as the time of Merrett,* and one 

 of our most common species along the line of our southern 

 coast, has not been so well distinguished or so clearly defined 

 by some authors as its obvious characters admit and require. 

 The males, though they have, like the females, a perfectly 



* Pinax Reruin Xaturalium I'litannicaruni. London, 1667, p. 185. 



