86 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



FamUy XI— RAJIDiE. " The Skates." 

 . Genus 28— RAJA Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, p. 231 {batis). 



45. polyommata Ogilby. 



Some new Queensl. Fish., 20 Dec. 1910, p. 86 : Cape Moreton, S.Q. 



Dimensions : — ^To at least 320 millim. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Cape Moreton to North Reef in 70 to 

 75 fath. (Ogilby). 



46. australis Macleay. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii, pt. 4, 21 Feb. 1884, p. 461 : Off South 

 Head, Botany Bay, N.S.W., in 40 to 55 fath. ; Waite, Mem. Austr. 

 Mus., iv, p. 40. 



Figure : — Waite, ibid., pi. 4. 



Dimensions : — ^To about 500 millim. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Cape Moreton [A.F.A.Q. Coll.). 



Subdivision MASTICURA. " The Whip-tailed Rays." 

 Family XII— DASYBATIDJE. 

 Subfamily a— UROLOPHIN^. " The Stingarees." 



Genus 29— UROLOPHUS MUUer & Henle, Arch. f. Nat. 1837, i, p. 400 



(cruciatus). Syii. — Trygonoptera MiiUer & Henle 1841.^^ 



47. testaceus Miiller & Henle.^^ 



Plagiost., 1841, p. 174 : New Holland ; Garman, Plagiost., p. 410 (as 

 Trygonoptera ^esfacea)— Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 486 ; Macleay, Catal., 

 1121. 



Figure : — Miiller & Henle, ibid., pi. 57 ; Tosh, Mar. Biol. Rep., pi. 5, fig. 3. 



Dimensions : — Width of disk to 30 cm. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Jumpin Pin (Tosh). Cape Moreton 

 {Q.M., O.C.). South Hill, Cape Moreton, Low Bluff, and Double Island Point 

 {Endeavour Coll.). 



I '•'^ Waite's discovery of a dorsal fin in fetal U. cruciatus (Mem. Avistr. Mus., iv, p. 43) does, 



away with the last shred of reason for the subdivision of this genus. 



=*'- I have little faith in Giinther's (Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., viii, p. 351) Cape Upstart record 

 of this species. In the Moreton Bay District U. testaceus is mainly a deep-water ray ; not once 

 has it been obtained inside Moreton Bay, though it is the most abundant species captured in Port 

 Jaclcson and the estuaries of the rivers of Middle New South Wales. Of the 113 examples trawled 

 at four stations by the " Endeavour" no less than 92 were taken in one haul at a depth of 73 fath. off 

 Cape Moreton in company with Raja polyommata, Lophiomus laticeps, and other deep-water forms, 

 but it was absent from the two hauls off North Reef in 70 and 75 fath. respectively. Off Doiible 

 Island Point, which lies aboiit midway between Cape Moreton and North Reef, a single example 

 was trawled in 33 fath., this being the most northerly station at which it was observed. That it 

 should be found as a littoral species so far to the north as Cape Upstart, requires confirmation. 



