404 



CICHLID.E. 



33. COEEMATODUS. 



J3oul('no-. rioc. Zool. Soc. 18«IG, p. 918, and 1898, p. 152 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. France, xvi. 1901, !>. 349. 



Body moderately elongate ; scales cycloid ; two incomplete lateral 

 lines. Jaws very massive, with extremely broad bands of innumerable 

 minute club-shaped teeth with compressed oblique entire crowns ; 

 maxillary concealed under the prseorbital when the mouth is closed. 

 Dorsal with 16 spines, anal with 8. Vertebrse 32 (15-}- 17). 



Lake Nyassa (Upper Shire Eiver). 



rig. 342. 





Corematodus slm'umis. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1896). 



1. COREMATODUS SHIRANUS. 



Boulong. tt. CO., p. 919, fig., and p. ir^2 ; Pellegr. I.e. 



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

 Head twice as long as broad, with curved upper profile ; snout broader 



