154 



CICHLID.E. 



vertical of ori-in of anal. Ventral reaching between vent and anal. 

 Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales cycloid, 

 33 H ; lateral lines f^|. Dark brown above, whitish beneath ; a black 

 opercular spot and three ill-defined black spots on the side below upper 

 lateral line ; soft dorsal and anal fins with round light spots between 

 the rays. 



Total length 360 millim. 



Upper Zambesi. 

 1. Type. Kafne H., N.W. Rliodesia. T. CodiMiigton, Esq. (P.)- 



I'ig. 100. 



Tiliipia hnfiiensis. 

 Type, i 



.5. TILAPIA MOSSAMBICA. 



CkroinU {Tilapia) mossamhicns, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, )). 681. 



Chromis nilotiais, part., Peters, Arch. £. Nat. 1855, p. 267 ; Giintli. Cat. Fish. iv. 



p. 510 (1802) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 23, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1868). 

 Chromis ynossamhictis, part., Giintli. t. c. p. 268. 

 Chromic dumerUii, Stciiid. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiv. 1864, p. 225, pi. vii. 



fior. 1 *. 



Chromis niloticus, var. mosscnnhicus, M. Web. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1807, 

 p. 148. 



* I am indebted to Dr. SteindacViner for the loan of one of the types of Chromis 

 dumerilii, and regard it as a young T. mossamhica. 



