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AMPHIBIA NANTES. RAJA. 
No. II. 
Raja ocellata, cor pore rotundo-ovato, lavi ; foraminibus pone oculos oblongis ; dor so dipterygio, 
cauda inermi, pinnata, 
The ocellated Ray, with a smooth, round-ovate body; oblong apertures behind the 
eyes ; two dorsal fins ; the tail without spine, pinnated. 
Called by the Natives Nalla Temeree. 
The head hardly distinguishable from the flat orbicular body, which assumes somewhat of an oval form 
towards the rostrum. The eyes and the apertures behind them, two inches from the point of the rostrum. 
The mouth, nostrils, branchial spiracula, and lateral fin, as described in the preceding fish. The ventral fins, 
situated as usual, at the beginning of the tail, obtusely triangular, and also fringed on the under side. There 
are two dorsal fins, that is, two fins on the upper side of the tail; the first, rising opposite to the end of the 
ventral fins, the second, half an inch lower; both are oblong and round-pointed. The tail is at first broad, a little 
compressed, but soon becomes narrower and rounder, terminating in a broad, oblique, round-pointed fin. 
The colour above, white, spotted universally with round black spots: a remarkable triangular mark, an inch 
behind the eyes, and a smaller, at half the distance, in front. The belly white. 
The length, from the rostrum to the tail, seven inches. The length of the tail to the point of the fin, 
eight inches. 
No. III. 
Raja capite vix convexo, dor so tuber culis minutis; cauda ter quam corpus longiore, spina , non 
serrata, armata, subtus pinnata. 
The Raja with a head hardly convex ; very small tubercles on the back ; a tail three 
times longer than the body, pinnated beneath, and armed with a spine not serrated. 
Called by the Natives Wolga Tenkee. 
The body of a rhomboidal form; the rostrum slightly pointed. The eyes large, oval, protuberant, two inches 
distant from the rostrum; the foramina or apertures, wide, cordate. The jaws rough like a file, and seem to 
possess a freedom of motion unusual in this genus. 
The back is roughened by minute, whitish tubercles, and in the middle, two whiter than the rest, exactly 
round, but of unequal size, are remarkable for their resemblance to fine pearls. 
The ventral fins small, roundish. No dorsal fin. The tail, at the rise, flattish, thick, compressed, but gradually 
becomes roundish, and tapering more sensibly from the dorsal spine, is hardly thicker than a hair, at the point. 
The dorsal spine two inches and a half in length, not serrated, rises at the distance of ten inches from the 
ventral fin, and on the opposite part, half an inch higher than the root of the spine, a fin narrow at each 
extremity, but broad in the middle, runs along nine inches of the lower part of the tail. 
The colour above, of the head and body, a dull-leaden; the parts on the other side of the belly, a dusky-white. 
The tail a dark-blue. 
The length, from the rostrum to the beginning of the tail, about nine inches and a half; of the tail two feet 
four inches. tr'S l'-'H 
