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moving slowly along the bottom. Hence the Tamil name : " Mann 

 Ulavi" i. e. " Mud-skate." In some dissected, Mr. Elliot observed 

 fragments of Crustacea in prodigious quantities. 



Gen. Rhynchobatus, Muller und Henle, 1839. 



Snout elongated, acute, with a tapering keel alo^ng the middle. The 

 interval between the keel and the inner margin of the pectorals is mem- 

 branous ; spiracles immediately behind the eyes. Upper eyelid with a 

 simple projection. Upper and lower nasal valve extend but halfway 

 to the internal angle of the nostril ; outside in front, at the upper mar- 

 gin of the nostril is a narrow hem. The undulations of the snout, 

 particularly the lateral ones, are shallow. Teeth broader than long, 

 with a transversal protuberance. A transversal arched row of pores ois 

 the abdominal surface of the scapular region. 



Rhynchobatus djeddensis, (Forskal.) 



Duham. Sect. IX. PI. 15. 



Raja dsiddensis, Forskal : Descr. 18. 



Raja dsiddensis, Linne : Syst. 1511. 



Rhinobate rhinobate, Lacepede, I. PI. VI. 



Raie bohkat, Lacep. I. 139. 



Rhinobatus laevis, Bloch-Schneider, Tab. 71 (Young.) 



Russell, X. "Walawah Tenkee (Young.) 



Raja djiddensis, Shaw, V. 319. 



Rhinobate lisse : Diet, des Sc. Nat. 19. 



Rhinobatus laevis, CuVier, R. A. II. 396('). 



Rhinobatus djeddensis, Riippell : Atlas, 54, Taf. 14, Fig. 1. 



Rhinobatus djeddensis, Bennett : Life of Raffles, 693. 



Rhinobatus djettensis, Riippell : Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 68. 



Rhinobatus duhamelii, Blainville : Faune. Fr. 148. 



Rhinobatus laevis, Swainson, II. 322. 



Rhynchobatus laevis, Muller und Henle, 111. 



(Young.) Above light greenish olive, pale yellowish- or reddish 

 brown, with a downwards arched black band on the upper eyelid ; a 

 small black spot on each side of the point of the snout ; a large oval 

 black spot surrounded by several white (from 3 to 6) ones above the 

 middle of the base of the pectorals, and with more or less numerous 

 white spots on the pectorals and the sides, where in some they are dis- 



