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Family XIII— MYLIOBATID^E. " The Eagle Rays" or " Bull 

 Rays." 



Subfamily a— MYLIOBATIN^. 



Genus 26— MYLIOBATIS (Dumeril) Cuvier, Regne Anim., ii, 1817, p. 137 

 {aquila). 



•56. hamlyni Ogilby. " Purple Ray." 



Ann. Queensl. Mus., No. 10, 1 Nov. 1911, p. 40 : Moreton Bay, S.Q.— 

 Macleay, Catal., 1122 (as M. aquila, name only). 



Unf^gured. 



Dimensions : — Width of disk in type 280 millim. Certainly attains a much 

 larger size. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Moreton Bay {Ogilby). ^^ 



Genus 37— AETOBATUS Blainville, Bull. Soe. Philom., 1816, p. 112 {narinari). 

 Syn. — Stoasodon Cantor 1849. 



57. narinaii Euphrasen. " Jumping Ray." 



Vet. Akad. Nya. Hand!., xi, 1790, p. 217 : Brazil (as Raia narinari) — 

 Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 492 ; Macleay, Catal., 1125 (as Aetobatis nari- 

 nari) — Garman, Plagiost., p. 441. 

 Figures :■ — Jordan & Evermann, Fish. N. & M. Amer., pis. 15 & 16 ; Garman, 

 ibid., pi. 49, figs 1-3 (dentition). 



Dimensions : — Width of disk to fully 4-5 mm. 



Range : — Coast of Queensland from south to north. Moreton Bay and Wide 

 Bay, S.Q. (Ogilby). Cape York, N.Q. (Macleay). 



Subfamily 6— RHINOPTERIN^. 

 Genus 38 — RfflNOPTERA (Kuhl) Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, ii., 1829 

 (marginata). 



58. neglecta Ogilby. " Cow-nose Ray." 



Mem. Queensl. Mus., i, 27 Nov. 1912, p. 32 : Moreton Bay, S.Q.— de Vis, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., ii, p. 12 (as R. javanica). 



Unfigured. 



Dimensions : — Width of disk in type 860 millim. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Moreton Baj^ (de Vis).^'^ 



3 « This species is the antipodean representative of the North Atlantic M. aquila, from which 

 it differs in dentition as noted by Giinther (Catal., viii, p. 489). Otherwise the two forms agree so 

 well that it might possibly be preferable to refer to the sovithern ray as Myliobatis aquila hamlyni. 

 Kent, writing of his visit to Elliot Island, remarks : — " Large bhie-spotted Sting Rays, Myliobatis 

 aquila, bask lazily in the intervening sandy patches" (Great Barrier Reef, p. 103). This statement 

 is certainly wrong as there is no evidence to show that the Bull Ray (M. australis) has ever been 

 found in Queensland waters. Kent has evidently mistaken either Dasybatus kuhlii, or young 

 Aetobatus narinari, or both for that species. 



=" Closely allied to, perhaps identical with, R. jayakari Boulenger from the Persian Gulf. 



