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CICHLID.E. 



Brown or olive above, whitish beneath, often with two dark bars across 

 the snout and another below the anterior third of the eye; border of 

 lower jaw and lower limb of praeoperculum sometimes dark brown ; 

 sometimes a durk band on the side of the head behind the eye ; 

 opercular spot more or less distinct, or absent ; dorsal and caudal 

 usually with numerous small dark spots, the former sometimes edged 

 with blackish ; a series of large bright ©cellar spots often present on 

 the anal. 



Total length 95 millim. 



Lakes Tanganyika and Kivu. 



1. Type. Ujiji, L. Tanganyika. 



2-11. Ad., ligr., & yg. Kitutu, ,, 



Mtondwe Bay, ,, 



Lufuko l\., ,, 



Pond at Tenibwe, 

 L. Tanganyika. 



L. Kivu. 



E. Coode Horo, Esq. (C). 

 Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C). 



12-13,11-10. Hgr. &yg 

 U;-17. Hgr. 

 J 8-22. Yo-. 



2;i-.32. Ad. & hgr 

 33. Skel. 



Dr. L. Stappers (C). 

 Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



52. TILAPIA ACUTICEPS. 



Chroniis acuticej's, ^tamd. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. 180G,p. 764 ; Boiileng. 



Boll. Mus. Torin. xi. 1896, no. 2G0. 

 Tilapia acuticeps, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 134; Pellegr. Mom. Soc. 



Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 340. 



Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, about 



Fis. 141. 



Ttlapia acidiceps. 

 Luculla K. 



3 times in total length. Head a little more than twice as long as 

 brood ; snout with straight upper profile, as long as broad, shorter than 

 postocular part of head, a little longer than eye, which is ?>l to 4 times 

 in length of head, equals interorbital width, and a little exceeds least 



