874 



CICIILID^.. 



r>3. PARATILAPIA CALLIURA. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vii. 1901, p. 2, Poiss. Bass. Conoo, p. 422 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1001, p. 151, pi. xix. fig. 3 ; Pellegr. Mem 

 Soc. Zool. Franco, xvi. 190-4, p. 2(19. 



Depth of body 4 to 4J times in total length, length of head 3 to SJ 

 times. Head 2h times as long as broad, with straight or slightly convex 

 upper profile ; lower jaw projecting ; snout pointed, as long as broad, 

 as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 3 to 3J times in length 

 of head, and measures at least twice interorbital width or least prseorbital 

 width ; mouth very protractile, praemaxillary processes very long and 

 ex( ending to between orbits ; maxillary extending to below anterior 



Fiff. 255. 



Paratilapia culliiira. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1901). 



fourth of eye ; teeth very small, in 2 series, about 80 in outer series of 

 upper jaw ; 2 or 3 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part 

 about ^ diameter of eye. Gill-rakers moderately large, 15 on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVII 10; spines increasing in 

 length to the last, which measures f to J length of head ; longest soft 

 rays f to f length of head. Anal III 7-8 ; third spine a little shorter 

 thon last dorsal. Pectoral a little shorter than head. Ventral reaching 

 vent. Caudal truncate or feebly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 1^ times 



2-•^ 



as long as deep. Scales rather strongly denticulate, 37-40 ^^j^; lateral 

 Pale brownish above, silvery beneath ; a blackish opercular 



lines 



25-29 



spot, dorsal and anal edged with black ; 4 or 5 black bars across the 

 caudal ; young with black bars across the dorsal. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



1-3. Typos. Kalaml)0. Prof. J. E. S. ]\roore (C). 



4. Skoi. 



