10;] 



Occurs ill lh(^ siiuK.' luralitips :m t he ju^-reiling specif'^, 

 Acad. Oill. 

 v. L' A Rorx us. 



Tlir Wob-FingcnMl (Tiirniird. 



Body r-yliiulrical, tapering toAvanls the tail. Head d*^- 

 ])re.ssod, witli a dee}) depression between tlie eyes, and ending' 

 in a bilobed snout: eack b:)]»e is furnished witli blunt s[iines 

 in front. Scales small, nearly s([iiarc. rectorals very lari^e 

 and brnad, like wini's: the tlng'crs or llesby ]irocesses, tbree 

 in miinlier, aevxe as inijiortant organs of toucli. (\dor 

 grayish, or cliocolate brown. Dorsal and ;nial lins with ]')ale, 

 obli(|ue bars. The lir.st dorsal tin witli a dusky, roundish 

 spot between the foiirtb and littli ray. f'our to six obsciuv 

 brownish hands across the back, (•bscdclc on the sides. 



I'^in-rays: D. Id. 14: 1'. 14: Y. o: A. !2: ('. 11.^ 



J^. roroh'iius, (liucnther, 11, p. 1".)2. 



Trajla curoliiid, h. i\IantisKa, ]•. -VJS. 



— pahnlpes, Mitch., Ti-ans. Lit. »V I'jiil. Sue. New ^'orlc, 

 I, J.. 431, pi. 4, tig. 5. 



Pj-ionoius pilatus, Storer, l*roe, J>ost. -S'al. Hist.. 11, ]>. 77, 

 and Report Fish. Ma.ssach., p. 1:0, [.I. <;, lig. I: P.aird, nintli 

 Sniitlison. Jleport, p. 1)21. 



— arrolinKS, Ciiv. cV' Val., Ill, p. '.Ml: Storer, lie|iorl. p. 

 14: DeKay, Xew York Fauna, Fish., p. ICi, pi. ."y. iig. 1,"). 



N^ot iiiiconimon about the mouth of the Potomac tlivei-, in 

 Sineprixent l^ay, and along the eastern shoi'c soutli of Tan- 

 gier Sound. 



AcAiJ. Coll. S. 1. 



