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CICHLID.E. 



anal. Ventral reaching vent or anal. Caudal truncate. Caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to IJ times as long as deep. Scales feebly denticulate, 

 33-40 j|-i| ; lateral lines |^^. Greyish or olive above, silvery white 

 beneath ; indistinct traces of darker cross-bands sometimes present ; 

 a feebly marked dark opercular spot ; a dark bar sometimes present 

 below the eye ; dorsal and caudal fins grey, the soft part of the former 

 and the upper hulf of the latter with round darker spots ; ventrals and 



Fi?. 230. 



Paratilapia vicioriana. 

 Runjako (F. N.). f 



anal yellow in females; males with the ventral black and the anal red, 

 the latter with two or three orange ocellar spots. 



Total length 140 millim. 



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



1-5. Ad. Bunjako. Mr. E. Degen (('.). 



(;-7. Ad. Entebbe. „ 



tS-10. Ad. & hgr. Sesse Ids. Dr. E. Biiyon (C); Genoa Mnsenni (P.). 



11-13. Ad. (.t hgr. Jinja, Ripon Fall.<. „ 



25. PARATILAPIA GRANTL 



ilaplocJiromia gnviti, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1900, p. 440. 

 FaratUapki (jranti, Bouleng. Fislies Nile, p. 470, ])1. Ixxxvii. tig. 4 (UU)7). 



Depth of body equal to or a little greater than length of head, which 

 is 2| to oj times in total length. Head about twice as long as broad, 

 upper profile curved ; snout broader and deeper than long, as long as 

 eye, which is 3^ to 3| times in length of head, equals interorbital 

 width and 1] to 1^ times prjrorbital depth; mouth nearly horizontal or 

 slightly oblique, extending to below anterior border of eye, or not (piite 



