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fuller's RAY. 



iRaja Fallonica. R. griseo-varia, dorso toto acvlcato, aculeorum 



ordine simplici ad oculos, duplici in cauda. 

 Variegated-grey Ray, with the whole back aculeated, a single 



row of spines at the eyes, ahd a double one on the tail. 

 Raja fullonica. R. dorso toto aculeato, aculeorum ordine simplici 



ad oculoSj duplici in cauda. Lin. Si/st, Nat. 

 Raja fullonica ? Rond, Gesn. 



This seems^ from the descriptions of authors, to 

 be very nearly alHed to the R. Rubus, but is still 

 more strongly roughened with spines ; the back 

 being entirely covered with those processes, but 

 the tail furnished with only a double row : in the 

 present . genus however such is the close alliance of 

 several species, and so great the differences which 

 take place in specimens of a smaller or larger 

 growth, that it is hardly possible to assign dis- 

 tinctive characters sufficiently accurate; and it may 

 perhaps be doubted whether this fish be any thing 

 more than a variety of the preceding kind. 



EGLANTINE RAY. 



Raja Eglanteria. R. dentihus obtusis, corpore aculeis minutis 

 obsito, cauda bipimiata^ spinis numerosis jnuricata. 



Ray with obtuse teeth, body beset with minute prickle?^ and 

 bipinnate tail muricated with numerous spines. 



Raja Eglanteria. Cepede. 



The present species is described by Cepede, who 

 informs us that it. was iirst observed by Citizen 



