Class IV. SKATE RAY. ill 



GENUS VIII. RAY. 



Body broad, flat, and thin. 



Apertures five on each side placed beneath. 



Mouth situated quite below. 



* With sharp teeth. 



BaTi?? Arist. hist. an. Lib. i. Raia varia, ilorso medio gla- !'• Skate. 



c. 5. Lib. vi. c. 10. Oppian bro, unico aculeorum or- 



Halieut. i. 103. dine in cauda. Arted. synon. 



Raia undulata sive cinerea. 102. 



Rondel. 346. Gesner pise. Gronov. Zooph. No. 157. 



791. La Raye cendree. Block, icht. 



The Skate, or Flaire. Wil. iii. 50. tab. 79- 



Ichth.Gg. Rail Syn. pise. 25. La Raie Batis. De la Cepede, 



Raia Batis. Lin. syst. 395. Hist, des Poissons. i. 35. 



Gm. Lin. 1505. 



J. HIS species is the thinnest in proportion to 

 its bulk of any of the genus, and also the largest, 

 some weighing nearly two hundred pounds. 



The nose, though not long, is sharp-pointed ; Descrip- 

 above the eyes is a set of short spines ; the 

 whole upper part of that we examined was of a 

 pale brown ; Mr. Ray says, some he saw were 

 streaked with black; the lower part is white, 

 marked with great numbers of minute black 



TIOS. 



