4 'J 2 CICHLID^. 



1. One of the tjpes. Sesse Us. Dr. E. Bayon ((*.) ; 



Genoa Museum (P. 



2. Ad. 



3. Skel. 



4-9. Ad. & hgr. L. Victoria. 



10. Ad. Jinja, Kipon Falls. „ ,, 



3. HEMITILAPIA MATERFAMILIAS. 



Pellegr. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxvii. 1913, p. 313. 



Depth of body 2^ to 2f times in total length, length of head 2| to 

 3 times. Head with curved upper profile; snout obtuse; eye 3 to 3^ 

 times in length of head, equal to or a little less than length of snout or 

 interorbital width ; lower jaw feebly projecting ; mouth extending to 

 below anterior border of eye ; teeth in 5 or 6 series in the upper jaw; 

 o or 4 series of scales on the cheek. 8 or 9 gill-rakers on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal XV-XVI 9 ; spines slightly increasing in length 

 posteriorly, last 2| to 2 J times in length of head. Anal 111 8-9 ; third 

 spine slightly shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral as long as or a little 

 longer than length of head, extending beyond vertical of origin of anal. 

 Ventral reaching anal. Caudal truncate. Caudal peduncle as long 

 as or a little longer than deep. Scales denticulate, 31-33 -j^,. Olive 

 above, silvery beneath ; 7 or 8 dark bars on the body, and a better- 

 defined black longitudinal band on the posterior part of the body. 



Total length 138 millim. 



I.ake Mctoria. — Types in Paris Museum. 



32. CHILOCHROMIS. 



Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902. ii. p. 230; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 

 1904, p. 3r>3. 



Body moderately elongate ; scales cycloid ; two incomplete lateral 

 lines. Jaws with very broad bands of bristle-like movable teeth with 

 club-shaped inbcnt crowns ; rami of lower jaw approximated, spatulate 

 in front, connected with the upper jaw by a broad thin lip. Maxillary 

 concealed under tlie pneorbital when the mouth is closed. Dorsal fin 

 with 10 or 17 spines, anal with 3. 



Chiloango System. 



