Class IV. ROUGH RAY. 115 



Raia asteria aspera. Rondel. LaRonce. Block ichth. iii. 62. 3. Rough. 



352. tab. 84. 



Gesner pise. 7g4. Wil. Ichth. La Raic ronce. De la Cepcde 



78. Hist, des Poissons. i. 7Q. 



Rail Syn. pise. 28. tab- b. Jig. 1 — 3. 



Raia rubus. Gm. Lin. 1507. 



J- TOOK this species in Loch Broom in the 

 shire of Ross. 



The length from the nose to the tip of the tail Dkscrip- 

 was two feet nine inches ; the tail was almost of 

 the same length with the body ; the nose very 

 short ; before each eye was a large hooked spine, 

 and behind each, another beset with lesser 

 spines ; the upper part of the body was of a 

 cinereous brown mixed with white, and spotted 

 with black, and entirely covered with small 

 spines; on the tail were three rows of great 

 spines ; all the rest of the tail was irregularly 

 beset with lesser ; the fins, and under side of 

 the body were equally rough with the upper*. 



* Mr. Donovan, in his History of British Fishes, tab. 103, 

 has figured a species he calls the Mirror Ray, the Raja miraletus 

 of Linnceiis, resembling, in many respects, the Rough Ray, of 

 which it may perhaps prove a variety. On each wing is a dark 

 purple spot, encircled by a ring of shining silvery green, round 

 which are five equi-distant contiguous spots of a deep purple 

 color. The specimen was procured in the London markets. It 

 may here be remarked, that the name of Hommelin given by the 

 Scotch to the Rough Ray, is appropriated by Willughby to the 

 Skate. Ed. 



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