TIL API A. 



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from anal. Ventral reaching vent. (Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 

 as long as deep or a little deeper than long. Scales feebly denticulate, 

 ^ ' ~^^ IcmT ' Ifiteral lines ioij2- Brownish above, white beneath, uniform 

 or with 7 or 8 rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; a blackish opercular 

 spot ; two or three dark streaks across the top of the head and another, 

 oblique, from the anterior third of the eye to the mouth ; usually a 

 black spot on the chin ; spinous dorsal greyish with round light spots; 

 soft dorsal yellow with oblique blackish bars ; anal yellow, blackish 

 towards the edge ; caudal yellow with small round blackish spots. 



Total length 105 millira. 



Upper Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 

 1-G. Types. Luluaburg. Rev. P. Callewaert (C). 



(U. TIL APIA STORMS II. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, i. p. 270, pi. xxx. fig. 2 ; Pellegr. Mein. Soo. 

 Zool, France, xvi. 1904, p. 339. 



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

 Head twdce as long as broad ; snout rather pointed, with straight or 



ri<r. 149, 







Tilajjiu stoniiisd. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1902). |. 



sli"-htly convex upper profile, as long as broad, as long as postocular 

 part of head, 1^ to If times diameter of eye, which is ^ (young) to 

 4^ times in length of head and equals interorbital width or depth of 

 pr^orbital ; mouth about § width of head, extending to between nostril 

 and eye ; teeth in 4 to 7 series, outer rather large and about 40 to 50 in 

 upper jaw; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part 

 equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 10-12 on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIl 9 ; last spine longest, about f length 

 of head; longest soft rays about h length of bead. Anal III 7; third 



