The Fi-t'Jnrnlcr Fi^Jn:-- of Hovlli Afr'i>'. 533 



Olive above, puler beneath, with or without a vertical brown bar 

 at the base of each scale; sometimes with a blackish lateral band, 

 which may be traversed by blackish vertical bars ; dorsal green 

 or olive, sometimes edged with red, with round yellowish-brown spots 

 on the soft part ; anal green or pink, with numerous round pinkish- 

 white spots ; pectorals lake-red ; ventrals olive-green. 



Total length 210 millim. 



Lake Ngami Basin.'' 



* 12. PARATILAPIA SMITHII, Cast. 



? Clirnmys smifMi, Casteln., Mem. Poiss. Afr. Atistr., p. 16 (1861). 

 P<-iri(t!li(jiln xmitJiii, Bouleng., Trans Zool. Soc., xviii, 1911, p. 410, 

 pi. xxxix. fig. -2, and Fivshw. Fish. Africa, iii, p. 357, tig. 242 (1915). 



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"Depth of body 2| to 2| times in total length, length of head 

 3 times. Head twice as broad, upper profile slightly concave in front 

 of eyes ; snout rounded, as long as broad, as long as postocular part 

 of head ; eye 4 to 4i times in length of head, !-- to 1^- times in inter- 

 orbital width, equal to preorbital depth ; mouth not extending to 

 below anterior border of eye ; teeth in outer series rather small, 52 to 

 64 in upper jaw, followed by one or two series of minute teeth ; 5 

 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part greater than diameter 

 of eye. Lower pharyngeal teeth with spherical crowns. Gill-rakers 

 short, knob-like, 9 to 12 on lower part of anterior arch. 



