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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



T-ENIUEA Muller & Henle. 



Tail long, with a rayless fold of skin below. 



39. Taeniura lymma (Forskal). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



40. Taeniura atra Macleay. New Guinea (Macleay) . 



HIMANTURA Dumeril. 

 Tail very long, without fold. 



41. Himantura fai Jordan & Seale, new species. Fai. Samoa. 



Snout 4.80 to base of tail; eye 2.75 in interorbital space, which is equal to snout; length of nasal 

 opening 2.75 in interorbital. 



Body broadly pentagonal, the snout very broad but somewhat pointed; disk wider than long 

 ( 14.50 inches wide, 1 1.50 long) ; length of disk 3.. SO times in the long whip-like tail; teeth not large, about 



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Fig. 2. — Himantura fai Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



13 oblique series on upper jaw and 23 oblique series in lower; upper buccal flap with fine fringes; 

 width of mouth 1.75 in snout; distance between lower gill-openings equal to distance from first to fifth 

 opening; length of ventral fins slightly less than interorbital space; tail without fold of any kind, its 

 lower surface smooth, the upper surface with scattered small prickles (spine removed by fisherman 

 from type); a row of 10 large spinules in front of spine; seven small spines on median line of disk at 

 its highest joint; a few scattered minute spicules scarcely showing through the skin near these spines 

 and on interorbital region, otherwise disk perfectly smooth. 



Color in spirits, back a uniform drab, top of tail dusky, under surface of disk uniform white, under 

 surface of tail lisjht brown. 



