RAIA OCELLIFERA. 3G5 



in a median series on the tail, and farther forward on young. Small tubercles 

 on the sides of the tail. 



Back brown with rounded darker and lighter spots; the male type with a 

 large yellow black-edged ocellus on each side of the back. 



Total length I?!, body 82, and greatest width 11 inches. 



Kerguelen Island. 



Raia eatonii. 



Raia eatonii Gunther, 1876, Ann. mag. nat. hist., ser. 4, 17, p. 390. 



Allied to Raia smithii. Width of disk one and one half times the length 

 of the body; anterior margins slightly indented, meeting at a right angle, outer 

 angles rounded. Length of snout from the eyes moderate, equal to three and 

 one half times the interorbital width. Teeth pointed, conical, in about 30 series 

 on the upper jaw. Greater part of upper surface smooth. Minute spines be- 

 tween the eyes, in a narrow stripe along the margin of the body, and in a broad 

 band along the median line of the back and the top of the tail. A single longer 

 recurved spine on the middle of the back and a series of nine or ten widely spaced 

 along the median line of the tail; no spines on the sides of the tail. Lower 

 parts smooth. Male with tenacula. 



Brownish black above, with indistinct round whitish spots; whitish below, 

 with some irregular spots of brownish black; lower part of tail brownish black. 



Total length 262, tail 14, and greatest width 18 inches. 



Type an adult male, from Kerguelen Island. 



Raia ocellifera. 



Raia capensis Muller & Henle, 1841, Plagics., p. 151; Dumeril, 1865, Elasm., p. 540; Kner, 1867, 



Nov. fische, p. 419 (non capensis Gmelin). 

 .Raia ocellifera Regan, 1906, Ann. Natal mus., 1, p. 2, pi. 2. 

 Raia rhizacanthus Regan, 1906, Ann. Natal mu3., 1, p. 3, pi. 3 (young). 



Shape of disk resembling that of R. clavata; much broader than long, front 

 angle obtuse, snout produced and sharper; anterior margins undulate, nearly 

 straight, slightly convex opposite the eyes; outer angles blunted, hinder broadly 

 rounded. Anterior ray of pectoral fins widely separated from the rostral carti- 

 lage. Distance between outer edges of nostrils less than length of snout. Mouth 

 curved; teeth obtuse in females, more pointed in males, in about 50 rows, or 

 less numerous in young. Back rough with small spines, absent from median 

 parts of adult males, more numerous on females and young. Several spines in 



