280 



CICIILID.E. 



7. LOBOCHILOTES, g. n. 



Body moderately elongate ; scales ctenoid ; two incomplete lateral 

 lines. Mouth narrow, with several series of compressed teeth which 

 are feebly notched or tricuspid in the young and obtuse in the adult; 

 the teeth of the outer series rather large. Maxillary exposed at the 

 end. Dorsal with 17 to 19 spines, anal with 3. Occipital and parietal 

 crests strong, extending to between the orbits. Vertebrae 32 (15-|-17). 



Lake Tanganyika. 



Intermediate between Tilcqjia and Docimodus. 



1. LOBOCHILOTES LAJ3IATUS. 



TUajjia lalnata, Bouleng. Ti-. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898^ p. 17, pi. v. fig. 1, and Poiss. 

 Bass. Congo, p. 473(1901); Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1901, 

 p. 1543 ; Bonleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 190G, p. 572. 



Depth of body 2| to 3 times in total length, length of head 2| to 

 2* times. Head 2 (young) to 2^ times as long as broad, with straight 



Yi^. 191. 



Lo^ioc/iilutis luhiatas. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1S08). f 



upper profile ; snout obtusely pointed, longer than broad and longer 

 than postocular part of head in the adult; eye ^ (young) to 5-1 times 

 in length of head, IJ to 2| times in length of snout, 1 to li ti^mes in 

 interorbital width, less than prscorbital depth in the adult; mouth 



