. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 247 determining earliest available names and genotype-designations. In the main, these "synonyms" have been tabulated by Fowler (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., lxx., 1, 1936, p. 104), but I would add to his list Eleutherocephalus Agassiz (Nomencl. Zool., 1846, Index Univ., pp. 71 & 136, an emendation for Cephaleutherus Rafinesque), Peroptera and Perioptera Gistei (Nat. Thierr. hbh. Schulen, 1848, p. x.), all based on abnormal skates. The name Propleygia was published in Gray's List Specimens Fish. Brit. Mus., i., Chond
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 247 determining earliest available names and genotype-designations. In the main, these "synonyms" have been tabulated by Fowler (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., lxx., 1, 1936, p. 104), but I would add to his list Eleutherocephalus Agassiz (Nomencl. Zool., 1846, Index Univ., pp. 71 & 136, an emendation for Cephaleutherus Rafinesque), Peroptera and Perioptera Gistei (Nat. Thierr. hbh. Schulen, 1848, p. x.), all based on abnormal skates. The name Propleygia was published in Gray's List Specimens Fish. Brit. Mus., i., Chondropt., 1851, pp. 83, 105 & 153, and seems to be an error for Propterygia Otto. The genus Raja has been regarded as a large one, embracing so many species that sometimes the same specific name has been used for more than one species. To avoid future use of names which are preoccupied, I offer here an alphabetical list of all the specific names of Raja spp. (sensu. Fig. 14. Rhynchobatus djiddensis australiae Whitley. Holotype of sub- species, a large specimen from off Manning River, New South Wales G. P. Whitley del. latissimo) known to me: abredonensis, abyssicola, ackleyi, aculeata, acus, acutidens, africana, agassizi, aguja, ajereba, alata, alba, albolinea, albo- maculata, aleutica, altavela, americana, andamanica, annandalei, antiqua, apteronota, aquila, arctowskii, armata, amok, ascanii, aspera, asperrima, asterias, atra, atriventrails, aurita, australis, badia, banksiana, baracola, barbata, barnardi, bathyphila, batis, bavosa, bicolor, Shaw, 1804, bicolor, Risso, 1826, preocc. (= alba), binocularis, binoculata, biocularis, birostris, bispecularis, bispinosa, blanda, bonaespeiensis, bonasus, borea, borussica, brachyura Lafont, 1871, brachyura Gunther, 1880, preocc. = brachyurops, bramanta, brasiliensis, brevicaudata, burgeri, capensis Gmelin, 1789, capensis Miiller & Henle, 1841, preocc. (= bonaespeiensis), castelnaui, caudaspinosa, cemiculus, cent(r)oura, cephalopte
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