EANKSIAN RAY. 295 



of small cartilaginous processes united by a mem- 

 brane or softer intermediate substance: tail slender, 

 but somewhat mutilated in the specimen described : 

 colour brown, paler or whitish beneath. Native 

 of the Mediterranean sea : observed about the 

 coast of Tuscany, and described by Dr. Fabroni of 

 Florence. 



BANKSIAN RAY. 



Raja Banksiana. R. subrhomhea cinerea, sfrigis longituduiaUhus 



nigris, caplfe hiloboy cauda teimi inermi. 

 Subrhomboid cinereous Ray, with longitudinal black streaks, 



bilobate head, and slender unarmed tail. 

 Diabolus marinus. IVill. ichth. append, t. g.f, 3. 

 - Raja Banksiana. Cepede. 



Size very large : pectoral fms still narrower than 

 in the Fabronian Ray : colour above cinereous, 

 with several unequal, black, lanceolate streaks dis- 

 posed over the back between the eyes and pectoral 

 fins : eyes not situated, as in the preceding kinds, 

 at the corners of the head, but on the upper part of 

 the front : the disposition of the black stripes is as 

 follows; viz. three behind the eyes; three similar 

 ones towards the origin of the tail ; and two at the 

 base of each of the pectoral fins. 



A drawing of this species was sent some years 

 ago from the East Indies, to Sir Joseph Banks, 

 under the name of the Sea-Devil : in the drawing 

 the horn-shaped processes on each side the head 

 were represented as furnished with a very long 

 fibre or process, in one of which a small fish was 



