LAMPEOLOGUS. 



48: 



26. LAMPROLOGUS FURCIFER. 



Boiileng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 0, pi. ii. fig. 1, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 407 

 (11)01) ; Pcllegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvl. 1904, p. 295. 



Depth of body 4 to 4J times in total length, length of head 2f to 

 3 times. Head twice as long as broad ; snout as long as or a little 

 longer than eye, which is 3j to 3§ times in length of head and exceeds 

 interorbital width; mouth extending to below anterior fourth of eye ; 

 G large canines, wide apart, in front of upper jaw, and 4 in front of 

 lower, followed by a moderately broad band of minute teeth ; lateral 

 teeth very small ; cheek witli deciduous scales. Gill-rakers short, 14 to 

 16 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIX-XXI 7-9 ; spines 

 increasing in length to the last, which measures f length of head ; 



Fig. 334. 



Lamproloy us furclfer. 

 Type(Tr. Z. S. 1898). f. 



some of the soft rays produced, f to | length of head. Anal 

 Vl-Vll 5-G ; last spine as long as last dorsal. Pectoral I length of 

 head. Ventral reaching vent or origin of anal. Caudal with deep 

 crescentic notch. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 2 times as long as deep. 

 Scales 50-GO i(ji2o.« It'^teral lines ijyl* Dark brown, with very indistinct 

 blackish cross-bars on the body ; spinous dorsal and ventrals blackish ; 

 round black spots on the soft dorsal and caudal ; caudal lobes tipped 

 with whitish. 



Total length 125 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



