200 



CJCIILID.E. 



U. TLLAPIA GUANDOCULKS. 



Bouleng. Ti-. Zool. Soc. xv. 1«1)*), j). '.)4, pi. xix. fig. G, Ann. Mas. Congo, Zool. i. 



p. 150, pi. liv. fig. G aOOO), Foiss. Bass. Congo, p. ill (1901), and Tr. 



Zool. Soc. xvii. 1!)0G, p. 573. 

 Edodus face, Vaill. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1899, p. 221, and Res. Scient. Voy. E. Foa, 



p. 5G1 (1908). 

 0}>ht1tal>notilapia foce, Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1901, p. 345. 



Depth of body 3 to 3| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3^ 

 times. Head not quite twice as long as broad ; snout short and 

 rounded, with convex upper profile, broader than long, as long as 

 postocular part of head; eye 2i to 2f times in length of head, a little 

 exceeding interorbital width, more than twice as long as least pra^orbital 



Fiir. lyi. 



TUaiiia (jrandoadis. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1899). 



depth; mouth small, J to f width of head, extending to between nostril 

 and eye ; teeth very small, in 3 to 5 series, outer obtusely pointed or 

 hi- or tricuspid, (iO to TO in upper jaw ; 2 to 4 series of very small scales 

 on tlie cheek, width of scaly i)art not half diameter of eye. Gill-rakers 

 short, 14 to 17 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIII- 

 XIV 13-14 ; spines feeble, equal in length from the seventh, which 

 measures about | length of head ; longest soft rays about h length of 

 head. Anal III 9 -10 ; third spine stronger but shorter than dorsals. 

 Pectoral as long as or a little longer than head, reaching origin of anal. 



