12 ■E-XDEAVOVK" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



several smaller ones also. Behind these are several irregular 

 rows of thorns which range themseKes in one median row and 

 two lateral ones on the tail and extend to the first dorsal fin. 



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Sides of the pectoral without larger thorns in the female, but 

 these are well developed in the male, the innermost ones being 

 the largest. Entire lower surface perfectly smooth. 



Uorsal fins subequal, the space between them half or less 

 than half the length of their bases. In some the interval 

 between the second dorsal and the caudal is equal to that 

 between the two dorsals, in others the two fins are almost 

 united. A skinny flap, which is widest posteriorly, extends 

 varying distances along the sides of the tail, sometimes reach- 

 ing as far as the ventrals. 



Colour. — Light brown above with \er} indistinct darker 

 marblings. Clusters of white spots are scattered over the 

 body, the most prominent of which is on the mid-line behind 

 the head, two pairs on each side of it, and one near the middle 

 of each pectoral fin. 



Total length 350 mm. 



Trawled in 90 fathoms, east of East Sister Island, Bass 

 Strait, and elsewhere off the V'ictorian Coast. 

 Raja waitii, sp. nov. 

 (Plate iii., and fig. 4.) 



Space between the nostrils equal to their distance from the 

 tip of the snout, (ireatest width of the mouth 2.5 in the head 

 to the last gill-slit. Interorbital width 5 in the same, and a 

 little greater than the length of the eye. 



