. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. /goii) tniionoides Castelnau, Proe. Zool. Soc, Vict, 1873, 121, New Caledonia: a sting ray with the spine 184 BULLETIN OF THE BUKEAU OF FISHERIES. TiENIURA Muller & long, with a raylesH fold of >^kin belnw. 39. Tseniura lymma (Forskal). New Guinea (Maeleay): Eas?t Indies. 40. Tseniura atra Maeleay. Xew Guinea (Maeleay). HIMANTURA very long, without fold. 41. Himantura fai Jordan & Seale, new speeies. Fal. Samoa. Snout to base of tail; eye in interorbital sjjaee, which equal to snout; length of nas^alopening
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. /goii) tniionoides Castelnau, Proe. Zool. Soc, Vict, 1873, 121, New Caledonia: a sting ray with the spine 184 BULLETIN OF THE BUKEAU OF FISHERIES. TiENIURA Muller & long, with a raylesH fold of >^kin belnw. 39. Tseniura lymma (Forskal). New Guinea (Maeleay): Eas?t Indies. 40. Tseniura atra Maeleay. Xew Guinea (Maeleay). HIMANTURA very long, without fold. 41. Himantura fai Jordan & Seale, new speeies. Fal. Samoa. Snout to base of tail; eye in interorbital sjjaee, which equal to snout; length of nas^alopening in interorbital. Body broadly pentagonal, the i^nout very broad but somewhat pointed; disk wider than long( inches wide, ]): length of di^^k ;0 times in the long whip-like tail; teeth not large, about V f. species Type 13 oblique series on upper jaw and 23 oblique series in lower; upper buceal tUqi with tine fringes;width of mouth in snout; distance between lower gill-openings equal to distanee from first to fifthopening; length of ventral fins slightly less than inteiorliital space; tail without fold of any kind, itslower surface smooth, the upper surface with seattcicil small piickles (spine removed by fishermanfrom type); a row of 10 large spinules in front of spine: sc\cii small spines on median line of disk atits highest joint; a few scattered minute s]iiciili-- sc :iicily showing through the skin near these spinesand on interorbital region, otherwise disk jxriictly Miniotli. Color in spirits, back a uniform drab, top of tail dusky, under surface of disk uniform white, undersurfai-c of tail light brown. THK FISHES OF SAMOA. 185 One specimen, type no. 51712, U. S. Natiunal Museum, from Apia, Samoa. Length with tail 47inches. The color in life was i)lain lirown, vrry dark,
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