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Caudal with deep crescentic notch. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long 

 as deep. Scales denticulate, 36-38 j^j:^ ; lateral lines jf^, the upper 

 extending to the caudal peduncle, or to the root of the caudal. Grey 

 or olive above, white beneath ; four yellow stripes along each side ; 

 pectorals yellowish, other fins dark grey or blackish. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. Moliro. Cnpt. Leinaire (C). 



2. Ad. Siinihu. ])r. W. A. Cunnington (C). 



3. Ad. Lofu R. 



F]>. 250. 



ParaUJapiu furcifera. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). 



48. PARATILAPIA FURC'IFKRA. 



Buuleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 14, pl. iv. fig. 1, and I\)i.ss. Bas;--. Congo, 

 p. 425 (IWl) ; Pollegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. Franco, xvi. 1904, p. 273; Bouleng. 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. wii. 1900, p. 5(]:i. 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad ; snout with curved ui)per profile, rounded, 

 broarlcr than long, as long as or a little shorter thau postocular {)art of 

 head, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is lis to 3 times \u 



