no 



SEREANID.^i:. 



length of head. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as 

 long as deep. Scales 125-150 38=45- Yellowish, darkish grey above, 

 shading to white below; middle region of body faintly naottled with 

 grey ; ventral fins yellowish. 



Fis. 84, 



Lates anijusli/roiiii. 

 Type (Tr. Z. 8. 1906). 



Total length 265 millim. 

 Lake Tanganyika. 



Type. Niamkolo. 



Hgr. Kinyaiiikolo. 



Dr. ^Y. A. Cunnington (0.). 

 Prof. J. E. S. Moore (CJ.). 



3. LUCIOLATES. 



Bouleng. llcv. Zool. Afr. iii. IDli, p. 442. 



Closely allied to Lates, but body more elongate, dorsal fins widely 

 separated from each other, and ventral fins behind vertical of base of 

 pectoral. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



I. LUCIOLATES STAPPERSIL 

 Bouleng. 1. c. 



Depth of body 4f to 5 times in total length, length of head 3\ to ^ 

 times. Head strongly compressed, 3-^ times as long as broad; snout 

 pointed, twice as long as eye, which is 5 to 5| times in length of head 

 and eqiials interorbital width; lower jaw projecting; maxillary not 

 extending to below anterior border of eye; serrature of prtvorbital very 



