Class IV. SHARP-NOSED RAY. 113 



Bov;l Ar'ist. hist. an. Lib. v. Raia oxyrinchus. Lin. Syst. 2. Sharp- 



c. 5. Oppian Halieut. ii. 3g5. Gm. Lin. 1506. nosed. 



141. Raia varia tuberculis decern 



Bos Ovidii ? 94. Plinii, Lib. aculeatis in medio dorso. 



ix. c. 24. Arted. Synon. 101. 



Raia oxyrhincus. Rondel. 347- LeRayelisse. Block ichth. in. 



Gesner pise. 7Q2. 52. tab. 80. 



Wil. Ichth. 7 1. Raii Syn.pisc. La Raie oxyrinque. DelaCe- 



26. pede Hist, des Poissons, i. 



72. tab. 4. Jig, 1. 



IN fishing in the Menai (the strait that divides 

 Anglesey from Caernarvonshire) July 1768, 

 we took one of this species, whose length was 

 nearly seven feet, and breadth five feet two 

 inches ; when just brought on shore, it made a 

 remarkable snorting noise. 



The nose was very long, narrow, and sharp- Descrip- 

 pointed, not unlike the end of a spontoon ; the 

 body was smooth, and very thin in proportion 

 to the size ; the upper part ash colored, spotted 

 with numerous white spots, and a few black 

 ones ; the tail was thick ; towards the end were 

 two small fins, on each side was a row of small „ 



spines, with another row in the middle, which 

 ran some way up the back ; the lower part of 

 the fish was quite white ; the mouth very large, 

 and furnished with numbers of small sharp 

 teeth bending inwards. 



vol, in. I 



