TILAPIA. 



105 



3 - • on_oo 



28-31 jy:^; lateral lines jqt^. Olive-brown, young with 5 or 6 broad 

 darker vertical bands which disappear more or less completely in the 

 adult ; a blackish opercular spot ; young with a large black spot at the 

 base of the last spines and the first soft rays of the dorsal, becoming 



Fig. 124. 



Tilapia cahrce. 

 Type (A. M. C). f . 



indistinct or disappearing in the adult ; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal dark, 

 with or without small round light spots or wdth dark vermiculations, 

 sometimes with a light edge. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Chiloango and Angola. — type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



Major Cabra (C). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorgc ((!.). 



