TJlf Frt'dttrittt'l- /'V.sV/rx <;/' Knlitll Affirn. 527 



Dorsal xv-xvi 13-14 ; spiues increasing in length to the last, which 

 is about 3 length of head ; longest soft rays ^ to % length of 

 head. Pectoral ~ to f length of head, not reaching origin of anal. 

 Ventral usually not reaching vent. Anal iii 10-12 ; 3rd spine to 1 

 length of head. Caudal rounded or rounded-subtruncate ; caudal 

 peduncle as long as or a little longer than deep. Scales feebly denti- 

 culate, sometimes cycloid, 35-38 j|^|; lateral lines 16 "_ 17 . 



Colour (of preserved specimens), dark olive or reddish-brown above, 

 yellowish beneath, often with 2 blackish longitudinal bands, the upper 

 above the upper lateral line, the lower from the gill-cover to the base 

 of the caudal tin ; dorsal and caudal fins greyish or dark olive, with 

 round blackish or reddish-brown spots ; ventrals dark ; an indistinct 

 dark opercular spot. 



One specimen, 267 mm. in length, from Zambesi River, above 

 Victoria Falls (Mr. F. W. Sykes). The eye is very small in this 

 specimen in comparison with length of snout or interorbital width. 

 Mr. Sykes gives the local designation of the fish as : Batoka name, 

 Mbofn ; Barotse name, Simaromo. 



One specimen, 127 mm. in length, from Kafue River (Mr. J. 

 Hotchkiss). 



Three specimens, 64 mm., 69 mm., 74 mm. in length respectively, 

 from Sawmills, Bulawayo (Mr. F. D. McKean). 



7. PARATILAPIA CODRINGTONI, Blgr. 



Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ii, 1908, p. 495, and Freshw. 

 Fish. Africa, iii, p. 352, fig. 238 (1915). 



Teeth small, in three series, 50 to 60 in outer series of upper jaw. 

 Depth of body twice in total length excluding caudal, length of head 

 3 times. Head about twice as long as broad, with steep, slightly 

 concave upper profile ; snout rounded, slightly longer than broad, 

 shorter than postocular part of head ; eye 5 times iii length of head, 



I interorbital width and a little less than preorbital depth ; mouth 

 not reaching vertical of anterior margin of eye, maxillary slipping 

 nearly entirely under preorbital ; scales on cheek in 5 series, width 

 of scaly part much greater than diameter of eve. Gill-rakers short, 



II on lower part of anterior arch. 



Dorsal xiv 14 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which 

 measures a little more than | length of head ; longest soft rays f 

 length of head. Pectoral i- length of head, not reaching origin of 

 anal. Ventral reaching to veut.J Anal iii 10 ; 3rd spine shorter than 



