306 



CICHLID.E. 



Caudal peduncle as long as or slightly longer than deep. Scales strongly 

 denticulate, 32-34 j|^ ; lateral lines i^j|. Olive or brownish, with or 

 without ill-defined dark cross-bars ; • some young specimens dark steel- 

 grey, nearly black on the top of the back and head ; a black or blackish 

 vertical bar below the anterior third of the eye, another, sometimes, 

 from behind the eye to the angle of the prseoperculum ; vertical fins 

 dark, with more or less distinct small darker spots ; dorsal and anal 

 fins usually edged with blackish ; anal, in the males, with two or three 

 transverse series of light, dark-edged ocellar spots. 



Total length 15-5 millimetres. 



Lake Victoria and Victoria Nile. — Types in Paris Museum. 



Fig. 206. 



Jlaphchromis allumidi 

 Type (F. N.). 



1. Oneof the types. Kavirondo Bay. 



M. O. Allnaiid (C.) ; 



Paris Museum (E.). 

 Mr. E. Degen (C). 



Mr. M. Simon (('.). 



Col. Delme Radcliffe (P.). 



(^. AV. Woodliousp, Esq. 



(C). 

 Dr. E. Bay on (C.) ; 



Genoa Mu^-cum (P.). 



