HOMET.YN KAY. 



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CHONDROPTERYGir. 



RA11D3: 



THE HOMELYN RAY. 



THE HOME, SAND RAY, AND SPOTTED RAY. 



Rula maculata, Sand Ray, Montagu, Wern. Mem. vol. ii. p. 426. 



,, miraletus, Mirror Ray, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 103. 



,, rubus. Rough Ray, ,, ,, ,, pi. 20. 



,, oculata, Mirror Ray, Flem. Brit. An. p. 172, sp. 26. 



,, maculata, Spotted Bay, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 614, sp. 203. 



This smooth-skinnecl spotted Ray, called Raia lavis 

 and Homelyn so long ago as the time of Merrett,* and one 

 of our most common species along the line of our southern 

 coast, has not been so well distinguished or so clearly defined 

 by some authors as its obvious characters admit and require. 

 The males, though they Have, like the females, a perfectly 



* Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. London, 1667, p. 185. 



