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Posterior margin of the pectorals, 7f inch. 



Base of the ventrals, OJ 



External margin of do., 1^ 



Internal do., 1 \ 



Male appendage, J 



Greatest breadth of the disk (between the external angles 



of the pectorals,) „ 19 



Gen. Stoasodon,* Cantor. 



(Equivalent to Aetobatis, Muller und Henle, 1841.) 



Snout acute, undivided. The lower margin of the united nasal 

 valves deeply indented. The fraenulum of the nasal valve is covered 

 with papillae which are transversely disposed in front of the upper jaw. 

 On the dorsal surface of the nasal valve, near the external margin, a 

 lobule with fringed edge. Lower jaw acute, projecting beyond the 

 upper; upper jaw with a straight margin. The dental laminae of both 

 jaws form a series, without smaller lateral teeth ; in the lower jaw the 

 laminae are arched and parallel to the margin of the jaw. The laminae 

 do not occupy the whole breadth of the jaw. 



Stoasodon narinari, (Bloch-Schneider.) 



Narinari, Marcgrave, 176. 

 Ruysch : Thes. T. XXXiX. Fig. 6. 

 La raie aigle, Lacep. I. PI. 6, Fig. 2. 

 Raja narinari, Bloch-Schn. 361. 

 Russell, VIII. Eel-tenkee. 

 Raja guttata, Shaw, V. 285, PI. 142. 



Raja quinqueaculeata, Quoy et Gaim. Freycin. 200, PI. 43, Fig. 3. 

 Myliobatis narinari, Cuv. R. A. II. 401 ( 3 ) 

 Myliobatis narinari, Bennett: Life of Raffles, 694. 

 Myliobatis eel-tenkee, Ruppell : Neue Wirbelth.'Fische, 70, Taf. 19, 



Fig. 3, (Teeth.) 

 Aetobatis indica, Swainson, II. 321. 



* 2too, arcade; o5<i>f, tooth. Substituted for Aetobatis, Muller uud Henle, 1841, 

 preoccupied by Aetobatis r Blainville, 1828, which as observed, is a synonyme of 

 Myliobatis. The characters given are those of M. M. Muller and Henle. 



