1901.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 333 



1810, p. 10 = Scynuius Ciivier, Beg ne Animal, II, 1817, p. 130, 

 Avhich is preoccupied in Insects. Italy. Bonaparte Coll. (No. 

 240). Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



RHINOBATID^. 



7. Rhinobatis columnse (Bonaparte). 



Rhinohatus columnm Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, Pesci, Tomo III, 

 xiv, xvii, 1835-36, 86, PI. 152 (two figures) . 



Nos. 476 and 477. Types of Rhinohatus columnce Bonaparte. 

 Italy. Bonaparte Coll. (No. 228). Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



There is also a dried specimen of this species. No. 16,920, 

 Bonaparte Coll. (No. 73). Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



8. Platyrhinoides triseriatus (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Platyrhina triseriata Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu?., 

 1880, p. 36. 



No. 528. Cotypical of Platyrhina triseriata Jordan and Gilbert. 



Santa Barbara, Cal. From the U. S. Fish Commission (No. 26, 



893). This is one of the several specimens described by Profs. 



Jordan and Gilbert, and they have indicated an adult male, taken 



at Santa Barbara, Cal., February 8, 1880, by A. Larco, an 



Italian fisherman, as the type. This specimen is in the collection 



of the U. S. National Museum. 



RAJID^. 



9. Raja punctata Risso. 



Raja Punctata Risso, Icbth. Nice, 1810, p. 12. 



Nos. 503 to 515. Types of Dasybatis asterias Bonaparte. 

 launa Italica, Pesci, Tomo III, xxix, 1840, 154, PI. 149, fig. 2. 

 Italy. Bonaparte Coll. (No. 230). Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



J/ouf^.— Broad or compressed. Teeth only upon the jaws. 

 Tongue absent. Superior buccal flap bilobed and fringed. Infe- 

 rior buccal flap entire. The inside of the mouth is smooth, and 

 destitute of fine shagreen patches. 



Pharynx. — Of the usual spacious, compressed and elongate 

 pattern. The posterior portions of the roof and floor of the 

 pharynx, together with the inner surfaces of the branchial arches^ 

 with patches of fine shagreen. Gill-openings 5, the median the 

 longest, the second and fourth next in size, and the first and fifth 

 the smallest and about equal. The gill-openings lead into as many 

 gill-pouches, and finally communicate externally by as many gill- 



