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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
rieties) of the common Starry Ray, to which it is also 
similar in size. Only six specimens are known, five 
of them — including a male 62 cm. long — taken by 
the Knight Errant Expedition at a depth of 400 — 600 
fathoms between Scotland and the Faroe Islands and 
now in the British Museum, the sixth a male 52 cm. 
long taken by the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition 
in 459 fathoms of water, off the north-west corner of 
Spitsbergen, and now at Christiania. 
From the common Starry Ray it differs principally 
by the greater number of aculei in the median line of 
the back and tail — the ventral side is smooth and 
quite free from aculei — and by the maculation of the 
THE SANDY RAY (sw. 
RAJA FA 
Fig. 
Length of the snout about 10 — f/ 1 / 2 % of that of the 
between each nostril and the tip of the snout about 16- 
No row of aculei in th 
Fig. 319. Young female of the Sandy Ray ( Raj 
Syn. Raja rulms , Lacep. (p. p.; nec Bl., Gmel.), Hist. Nat. Poiss., 
tom. I, p. 79, tab. 5 (fig. .vera, descr. p. p.). 
Sandy Ray , Couch, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charleswouth), vol. II 
(1838), p. 71 (sine nom. system.). 
Raja radula, Yarr., Brit. Fish., ed. I, vol. II, Suppl., p. 69 
(nec De La Roghe). 
Raja falsavela, Bnp., Iconogr. Fna Ital., Pesci , tab. 148, fig. 
1; Canestr., Fna Ital., Pesci, p. 56; Gigl., Esp. Intern. 
ventral side. This surface of the body is marked on 
its white ground with large, almost symmetrical spots 
and patches of the same dark grayish brown colour as 
appears on the dorsal side. The species is stated to 
be further distinguished by more scattered and more 
pointed jaw-teeth. The form of the body differs so 
widely in Collett’s and Gunther’s figures that in this 
respect the Deep-sea Ray would seem to be a highly 
variable intermediate form between the Starry Ray and 
the sharp-nosed species of the genus. The species- — which 
is based principally on a chromatic character — evidently 
requires revision, a task which, having no specimen with- 
in our reach, we cannot undertake in the present work. 
SANDROCKAN OR SPATTIiOCKAN). 
LSAA 7 ELA. 
319. 
body or 19 — 21 % of the breadth of the disk. Distance 
17 % of the said breadth. Dorsal fins set close together. 
' median line of the tail. 
Pesca Berl. 1880, Sez. Ital., p. 114; D6derl., Man. Ittiol. 
Medit., fasc. Ill, p. 202. 
Raja ncevvs, Mull., Hle, Plagiost., p. 138 (+ R. radula , 
p. p., p. 133). 
Raja circulars, Couch in Yarr., Brit. Fish., ed. 2, vol. II, 
p. 574; Malm, Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1857, p. 187; 
Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl., vol. I, p. 115 (+ R. miraletus, 
p. 112); Gthr, Cat. Brit. Mus., Fish., vol. VIII, p. 462; 
