ooU 



CICHLID.E. 



21-2G. Ad. & yg. 

 27. Yg. 



28-31. Ad. & yg. 

 32-36. Hgr. & yg. 

 37. Yg. 

 38-42. Yo-. 



L. Bangvvelu. 



Lofoi, Katanga. 



Okovango U., near L. Nganii. 



MossameJes. 



Tala Kilau, Mossamedes. 



Dongwenna, ,, 



F. H. Melland, Esq. (P.). 

 Capt. Leiuaire (C). 

 \{. B. Woosnani, Esq. (P.). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



14. PARATILAPIA YITTATA. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vii. 1901, p. 1, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 415 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 150, pi. xviii. fig. 1 ; Pellegr. Mem. 

 Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 2G3. 



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

 times. Head 2| to 3 times as long as broad, with curved upper profile; 

 lower jaw projecting ; snout longer than broad, a little shorter than 

 postocular part of head, IJ to If times length of eye, which is 4 to 4| 

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

 prseorbital depth ; mouth extending to below anterior border of eye ; 

 teeth in 3 or 4 series, outer much larger than the others, about 50 in 

 upper jaw ; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part 

 equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 10 to 1:^ on lower part of 



Fig. 221. 



liiP^ 



Paratiliqna vittuta, 

 Type(Tr. Z. S. 1901). 



anterior arch. Dorsal XV-XV^l 8-9; spines subcqual from the seventh 

 or eighth, about J length of head and f longest soft rays. Anal III 

 8-0 ; third spine as long as longest dorsals. Pectoral about f length 

 of head, not extending quite to vertical of origin of anal. Ventral 

 reaching vent or origin of anal. Caudal truncate. Caudal peduncle 



