394 CICHLID.?:. 



Ventral produced into a filament, reaching origin of anal or beyond. 

 Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 

 26-28 gf^Q ; lateral lines yij^f. Dark olive-brown above, yellowish 

 beneath, often with 5 or 6 more or less distinct darker cross-bands; a 

 bluish-black opercular spot ; fins greyish, soft dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 with small blackish spots, or with round light, dark-edged spots. 



Total length 120 millim. 



South Cameroon and Fernando Po to Congo. — Types in Paris Museum. 



1-7, 8-15. Ad. & hgr. Kribi R., S. Cameroon. G. L. Bates, Esq. (L\). 



16. Skel. 



17. Ad. Efulen, 



18-20. Tji^esoLP.bate,'<iL Benito [{., Spanish „ 



Guinea. 

 21-25. Ad. & yg. Fernando Po. Mr. E. Soimund (C). 



10. PELMATOCHROMIS CAUDIFASCIATUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) xii. 1913, p. 69. 



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

 length. Head twice as long as broad ; snout rounded, with convex 

 upper profile, a little broader than long, as long as or a little longer 

 than eye, which is oj to 3^ times in length of head, 1 to IJ times in 

 interorbital width, and a little exceeds praeorbital depth ; mouth mode- 

 rately large, extending to between nostril and eye ; teeth small, in 3 or 

 4 series, 40 to 60 in outer series of upper jaw ; 3 or 4 series of scales on 

 the cheek, width of scaly part a little less than diameter of eye. Gill- 

 rakers short, tubercular, 7 to 9 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 XIV-XVI 9-11 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures 

 f to J length of head; longest soft rays shorter than head. Anal 

 III 7-8; third spine as long as last dorsal. Pectoral | to f length of 

 head, not reaching origin of anal. Ventral produced into a filament, 

 reaching vent, origin of anal, or a little beyond. Caudal rounded. 

 C'audal peduncle a little deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 27-29 {J^Vfi ' 



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lateral lines -yij-- I^i'own above, yellowish beneath ; a more or less 

 distinct dark band from the eye to the root of the caudal, crossed by 

 7 to 9 rather faint dark bars, which expand into round black spots 

 where they meet the lateral band on the caudal part of the body ; 

 dorsal with round dark spots and a black and white edge; anal with 

 round dark spots, whicli often iorm ()bli(ine bands ; caudal with 



