412 CICHLID.E. 



series of vortical blackish bars on each side of the body; on the tail, 

 from below the middle of the dorsal, the spots unite into a band which 

 extends to the caudal, and the vertical bars likewise fuse to form a 



Fijr. 301. 



Bailiyhates fasciatns. 

 Type(Tr. Z. S. 1901). 



lateral band ; a blackish spot on the opercle, another at the base of the 

 ventral; two black bands on the dorsal, a basal and a marginal, on only 

 one, the marginal. 



Total length 335 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



1. Type. W. coast of L:iko. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



2. All. Niumkolo. Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C). 



6. BATHYBATES MINOR. 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 190G, p. 504, pi. xxxviii. fi;^. 1. 



Depth of body og to 3f times in total length, length of head 

 2f to 3 times. Head 2| to 3| times as long as broad ; snout with 

 convex upper profile, as long as or a little shorter than postocular 

 part of head ; lower jaw projecting ; eye slightly shorter than snout, 

 3J to 3§ times in length of head, slightly exceeding interorbital width ; 

 mouth extending to below anterior border of eye ; 2 or 3 series of 

 teeth in upper jaw, 2 in lower; 5 scries of scales on the clieek. Gill- 

 rakers rather short, 11 or 12 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 XIII 15-lG, deeply notched, the eighth to eleventh spines being 

 only about half as long as the fifth and last, which are the longest 

 and measure about f h'ngth of head ; longest soft rays I to \ length 

 (tf head. Anal 111 l(i-17 ; spines feeble. Pectoial f^ length of head. 

 \'t-'utv:il u<.>t rcadiin^; vent, (.'audal deejtly n<>tfhed. Caudal pcilimcle 



