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]\rr. 0. A. Bouleiifjor on 



Haplochrom'is Stanleyi. 



Teeth in 3 or 4 scries in both jaws, outer largest, eonical or 

 bicuspid, the others minute and tricuspid. Lower jaw 

 slightly projecting. Depth of body equal to length of head, 

 3 times in total lengtli. Upper profile of head slightly 

 concave ; snout as long as the eye, the diameter of which is 

 3A or 3-' times in length of head and e(inals interorbital 

 width ; nuixillary extending to below anterior border of eye ; 

 3 scries of scales on the cheek. Gill- rakers rather long, 

 some T-shapcd, 12 or 13 on lower part of anterior arch. 

 Dorsal XIV-XV 9-10 ; spines equal from the sixth or 

 seventh, ^ to | length of head ; longest soft rays '^ length of 

 liead. Anal III 9; third spine as long as or a little longer 

 than longest dorsal. Pectoral as long as head, reaching 

 origin of anal. Ventral extending Ijcyond origin of anal. 

 Caudal truncate, slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 

 twice as long as deep. Scales ctenoid, 30-32 ^] lat. 1. -^"^[^ 

 Keddish brown above, greyish beneath ; throat and opcrele 

 1 lackish ; a V-shaped blackish band, pointing forwards, on 

 the nape; a blackish vertical bar below the anteiior border 

 of the eye; ill-defined blackish sjots on the side of the body, 

 partly confluent into one or two longitudinal bands ; dorsal 

 grey, anal yellow, both blackish at the base, the latter with 

 two or three large orange oeellar spots encircled with red ; 

 caudal greyish, blackish in the midtUc ; ventrals black. 



Total length 110 mm. 



Two specimens from Bunjako and one from Buganga. 



This species, called after the great African explorer Mhose 

 name stands next to those of Speke and Grant in the history 

 of Lake Victoria, is allied to H. Bloyeti and H. iivchisquunin- 

 latvs, but well distinguished by the larger eye, the longer 

 caudal peduncle, the truncate caudal fin, and the more 

 numerous gill-rakers. 



H(ipIoc/tro?nis hicolor. 



Teeth in 3 to 5 seiies in both jaws, the outer larger and 

 mostly l)icusp'.d in the young, obtusely conical in the adult, 

 the others minute and partly conical, partly tricuspid. Depth 

 ot body 25 to 3 times in total length, length of head 2^^ or 3 

 tinus. Snout broad, rounded, with curved upper protile, as 

 long as or slightly longer than the eye, which is 3g to 4^ 

 times in length of head and once to once and | in inter- 

 orl)ital width ; lips very thick ; maxillary reaching or hardly 

 J caching to below anterior border of eve ; 3 or 4 scries of 



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