418 



CICHLID.'E. 



31. PELMATOCHROMIS FLAVIPINNIS. 



Bouleng. Ann. & M;.a. N. H. (7) xvii. 190G, p. 441, ;ind Fhh. Nile, p. 448, 

 pi. Ixxxix. fig. a (1907). 



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

 large, slightly more than twice as long as broad, with concave upper 

 profile ; snout as long as broad, If times as long as eye, which is 5 times 

 in length of head, 1^ times in interorbital widtli, and equals prrcorbital 

 depth ; mouth oblique, not extending quite to below anterior border of 

 eye ; lower jaw projecting ; teeth in 3 or 4 series, outer largest and 

 curved, 58 in upper jaw ; G series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly 

 part much greater than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 9 on lower 

 pan of anterior arch. Dorsal XV 9 ; spines increasing in length to the 

 last, which measures ^ length of head ; longest soft rays a little more than 

 •^ lengtli of head. Anal Hi 8 ; third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. 

 Pectoral | length of head, not reaching origin of anal. Ventral reaching 

 vent. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as deep. 



Fig. 2S(!. 



.W\ .\ 



Pehiuitochroniisjlavijjiniiis. 

 Type(F.N.). f. 



Scales denticulate, 31 -j-^ ; lateral lines '^. Yellowish, tinged with orange 

 on the sides, with four broad olive-brown cross-bands on the upper half 

 of the body ; an interrupted dark streak on each side from above the 

 gill-cover to the base of the tail ; head speckled with brown ; an angular 

 olive-brown band, pointing backwards, from eye to eye on the occiput ; 

 a broad blackish band from below the anterior half of the eye to the 

 mouth ; a blackish vertical bar on the praeoperculum ; an oblique 

 blackish bar, involving the opercular spot, behind the gill-cover ; fins 



