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anal. Caudal slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 1^ 

 as long as deep. An opercular spot ; a blackish band from 

 nape to caudal. 



Five specimens, 80 to 125 mm. long {Wood, Rhoades), and a 

 skeleton. 



Text-fiscure 16. 



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Saplochromis spluBvodon. f. 



27. Haplochromis ericot^xia, sp. n. (Text-fig. 17.) 



Depth of bod}^ 3i to 3;^ in length, length of head 3 to 3^. 

 Snout with straight profile, nearly as long as or shorter than 

 diameter of eye, which is 2| to 3 in length of head, interorbital 



Text-fioure 17. 



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Saplochromis ericotcenia . Nat. size. 



width 41, prfeorbital depth 5-1- to 6. Jaws equal anteriorly ; 

 maxillary not extending to below eye; teeth in 4 series, 35 

 bicuspid teeth in outer series of upper jaw. 3 series of scales on 

 cheek. 10 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Middle 

 posterior pharyngeal teeth enlarged and obtuse, probably spherical 



