RAIA STABULIFORIS. 341 



Raia eglanteria. 

 Plate 23. 



Raia eglanteria Lacepede, 1800, Poissons, 2, p. 109, pi. 4, f. 2; Garman, 1874, Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., 



17, p. 179; Jordan & Gilbert, 1883, Bull. 16, U. S. nat. mus., p. 41; Jord. & Everm., 1896, Bull. 



47, U. S. nat. mus., p. 71. 

 Rata desmaresiia Lesueur, 1824, Journ. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 4, p. 100, pi. 4; Muller & Henle, 1841, 



Plagios, p. 154; DeKay, 1842, N. Y. fish., p. 372; Storer, 1846, Mem. Amer. acad., new ser., 2, 



p. 259; DuMERiL, 1865, Elasm., p. 551. 

 Raia chantenatj Lesueur, 1824, Journ. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 4, p. 106, pi. 5; Storer, 1846, Mem. 



Amer. acad., new ser., 2, p. 260. 

 Raia americana DeKay, 1842, N. Y. fish., p. 368, pi. 66, f. 215. 

 Raia ocellata DeKay, 1842, N. Y. fish., p. 369, pi. 65, f. 212. 



Disk much broader than long, anterior angle little more than 90°, margins 

 concave opposite the spiracles, outer angles blunted, hinder broadly rounded. 

 Snout blunted at the end, elongate, nearly twice the distance between the 

 spiracles, or one and one half times the width of the mouth. Mouth wide, 

 waved; teeth sharp, in If rows. Disk and tail rough above, rougher on young 

 and females. Sharp spines on the rostral ridges, larger in a group opposite the 

 eyes, on the ridges, on the median line of the back and tail, in two or more 

 lateral rows on the tail and in a pair on each shoulder. Smooth areas occur over 

 the gills and abdomen, and many of the smaller spines appear to be lost by adults. 

 Males have the bands of tenacula near the outer angles of the disk, the number 

 of hooks increasing with age. The claspers of the male are even more depressed 

 and broadened posteriorly than those of R. scabrata. 



Specimen figured and described from Charleston, S. C, received through 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Total length 21, snout to pores lOs, greatest 

 width 132 inches. 



Cape Cod to Florida, abundant off New York and the Carolinas. 



Raia stabuliforis, sp. nov. 

 Plate 22, fig. 2; Plate 44, fig. 4-6 (brain). 



Raia laevis Mitch., L818, Amer. mo. mag., 2, p. 327; DeKay, 1842, N. Y. fish., p. 370; Storer, 



1846, Mem. Amer. acad., new ser., 2, p. 259; Garman, 1874, Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., 17, p. 180; 



1888, Bull. M. C. Z., 22, p. 90, pi. 27-29; Jordan & Gilbert, 1882, Bull. 16, U. S. nat, mus.. 



p. 42; GooDE & Bean, 1896, Mem. M. C. Z., 22, p. 28, pi. 9, f. 29; -Jord. & Everm., 1896, Bull. 47, 



U. S. nat. mus., p. 71. 

 Raia balis Storer, 1839, Report fishes, p. 193. 



Disk broader than long, snout produced, anterior margins sinuous, concave ; 

 outer angles slightly, and posterior angles broadly rounded; head and base of 

 rostral cartilage rather broad, crown concave transversely. Eyes small, orbits 



