2Q6 fringed ray. 



represented as entangled : this circumstance ap- 

 pearing very doubtful, it was supposed to have been 

 rather a pictorial licence than a real representa- 

 tion ; the processes being probably simple, as in 

 others of this particular tribe : this seems confirm- 

 ed by a figure given in Willughby's Ichthyology^ 

 evidently representing the same species, in which 

 the processes are represented as unfurnished with 

 any filament. Wilhighby*s figure is taken from 

 Nieuhoff, and represents the tail about twice the 

 length of the rest of the animal, seemingly fiirnish- 

 ed along its under part with a series of small acu- 

 minated processes. This species is said to occur 

 in both the Indian oceans, and to be occasionally 

 observed about the coasts of Barbadoes, where a 

 specimen was once taken of so enormous a size as 

 to require seven yoke of oxen to draw it along. 



FRINGED RAY. 



.. Raja Fimbriata. R. suhrho^nhea nigricans, capife biloho, cauda 

 utrinque Jimbriata. 



Subrhomboid blackish Ray, with bilobate head, and tail fim- 

 briated on each side. 



Raie frange. Cepede. 



Size very large : colour above very deep brown ; 

 beneath whitish : eyes situated on the upper part 

 of the head, as in the major part of the genus : 

 pectoral fins terminating in a moveable tip, and 

 together with the body, forming a rhomboidal out- 

 line : tail long, slender, and fringed along each side 



