HAPLOCHEOMIS. 



287 



4-5 



longer than deep. Scales finely denticulate, 33-36 pijs; lateral lines 



13-T6- Silvery, largely and irregularly marbled with blackish, or olive 

 speckled and spotted or marbled with dark brown ; a dark bar may 

 extend from below the eye to the angle of the mouth and two dark bars 



Fig. 104. 



llapJochroinis liuinystonii. 

 Type, after Giiuther (P. Z. S. 1893). f . 



may be present across the head, from eye to eye ; dorsal, caudal, and 

 pectoral fins usually with round blackish spots ; ventral and anal 

 usually blackish. 



Total length 190 niillim. 



]/ake N}assa and Upper Shire River. 



1. Type. L. Nyassa or Upper Shire. 



2. Ail. L. Nya-ssa. 



l'p})er Shire, 



A. A.!. 



Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 

 Capt. E, L. Rhoades (P.). 

 Dr. W. A, C'unnington (C). 

 Dv. Percy Kendall (C.) ; 

 Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 



2. HAPLOCHROMIS VENUSTCS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. .1908, p. 241. 



Depth of body 2} to 2§ times in total length, length of head 3 times. 

 Snout with straight upper profile, 1^ to 1| diameters of eye, which is 4 

 to 4 J times in length of head, 1 J to IJ times in interorbital width, and 

 equal to or a little less than least depth of prieorbital ; lower jaw not 

 projecting ; mouth not extending to below anterior border of eye ; 

 outer teeth moderately large, all conical or some bicuspid, 56 to 74 in 

 upper jaw, followed by 3 or 4 series of small conical teeth ; 3 or 4 

 661 ics of scales on the check, width of scaly [)art equal to or a little 



