154 Dr. A. Giintlier on a Collection 



XXIII. — Third Notice of a Collection of Fishes made hy Mr. 

 Swinhoe in China. By Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S. 



In the two previous communications on Mr. Swinlioe's collec- 

 tions of Chinese fishes published in this Journal for 1873 (Sept. 

 pp. 239 -250, and Nov. pp. 377-380) the majority of species 

 enumerated were from Shanghai, and only eleven from the 

 more northern Chefoo. A case just received from this inde- 

 fatigable zoologist contained collections made exclusively in 

 the latter locality, adding much to our knowledge of its 

 fauna. The species of lishes collected by Mr. Swinhoe at 

 Chefoo amount now to forty-seven. 



12. Mustelus manazo^ Sclileg. 



13. Triads semifasciata^ Girard. 



14. Raja i^orosa^ sp. n. 



Allied to Raja marginata. The anterior part of the snout 

 is abi-uptly contracted into a narrow thin appendage ; the width 

 of the interorbital space is more than one third of the distance 

 of the eye from the end of the snout. Anterior profile un- 

 dulated. Teeth in fifty-four or fifty-six series in the upper 

 jaw, pointed in the male, flat in the female (as in the majority 

 of the species oi Raja). Superciliary margin with a series 

 of spines ; rostral process with small stellate asperities ; a 

 series of three or four spines in the median line of the back 

 behind the head ; tail with three series of spines in the male 

 and with five in the female. The width of the disk is much 

 more than the distance from the end of the snout to the hind 

 margin of the ventral fin. Upper parts brown, with the snout 

 white ; lower parts whitish, tinged with brown. The skin of 

 the lower part of the snout and of the throat is perforated 

 with numerous large pores, white in the centre and surrounded 

 by a black ring. 



The male is provided with a band of hooks near the angle 

 of the pectoral fin and again on each side of the head, and the 

 anterior margin of the disk is covered with asperities on its 

 . upperside in its whole length. The female is smooth on the 

 parts just mentioned, but provided with a broad band of small 

 hooks along the upperside of the posterior margin. 



Two specimens, male and female, adult, 11 inches broad. 



15. Trygon, sp., young. 

 16. Hapalogenys nigripinnis (Schleg.). 

 17. Pagrus major ^ Rich, 



