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LYMNA RAY. 



RajaLymna. R. testacea, cceruleo-maculata^caudapinnata armatd, 

 Subfermginous Ray;, with blue spots, and pinnated armed tail, 

 R. Lymna. K. cor pore ovali Icem tcstaceo, maculis ccerukis^ 



Cauda pinnata aculeo uno, Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. Forsk, 



Arab. p. 17. 



This, according to Forskal, its first describer, is 

 much allied to the Eagle-Ray and the Fire-Flaire, 

 and is of a reddish brown colour above, besprinkled 

 with numerous oval blue spots of different sizes 2 

 the tail is somewhat longer than the body, marked 

 above> for half its length, with two longitudinal 

 blue stripes, and is furnished about the middle with 

 one, and sometimes with two large and serrated 

 spines, which are covered at their base by a blueish- 

 brown skin : the under part of the body is pale or 

 whitish. Native of the Red Sea. 



CUCKOW RAY. 



Raja Cuculus. R.fusco-ccerukscens, subtus albida, capite brevi^ 

 Cauda armata. 



Blueish- brown Ray, whitish beneath, with short head, and 



armed tail. 

 Raja Cuculus. Cepede* 



Pastinaca marina altera. tVill. ichth. t. C. l.f. 3. > 



Allied to the oxyrhinchus^ but never grows to 

 so large a size : colour above either blueish or 

 brown-bay : beneath whitish : head small and 

 short : teeth sharp : across the roof of the mouth a 



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