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stronger than last dorsal. Pectoral as long as head or a little shorter, 

 extending to vertical of origin of anal or a little beyond. Ventral 

 reaching origin of anal or a little beyond. Caudal truncate. Caudal 

 peduncle Ig- to 1|- times as long as deep. Scales rather strongly denti- 

 culate, 30-33 jgni; lateral lines jgiTs ! scales on pectoral region very 

 minute. Males brown above, sometimes with very indistinct darker 

 cross-bars, silvery beneath, more or less profusely powdered with dark 

 brown, or entirely dark brown ; fins grey to blackish, caudal sometimes 

 with round black spots, or perfectly black. Females brown above and 

 white beneath, sometimes with a broad dark brown lateral band 

 extending from the gill-cover to the caudal, sometimes with indistinct 

 dark cross-bands ; fins whitish or grey, dorsal with a few dark spots, 

 caudal sometimes with round dark spots. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Lake Albert Edward and Lake Kivu. — Types in Berlin Museum. 



1-5. Types. L. Albert Edward. Dr. H. Schubotz {().) ; German 



0. African Expedition. 



G. Skel. ,1 " " 



7-11. Types of var. graci- Kissenge, L. Kivu. „ „ 



lior, Blgr. 



7. HAPLOCHROMIS ISHMAELI. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mng. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 446, Fishes Nile, p. 500, pi. xc. 

 fig. 6 (1907), and Ann. Mus. Genova, (3) v. 1911, p. 71. 

 Depth of body equal to or a little greater than the length of the head, 

 which is 2f to 3 times in total length. Snout with straight or slightly 

 convex upper profile, 1 to 1^ times as long as eye, which is 3^ to 4 times 

 in length of head, f to once interorbital width, and 1| to If times least 

 depth of preeorbital ; lower jaw not projecting ; mouth not very oblique, 

 extending to below anterior border of eye ; teeth very small, in 3 to 5 

 series in both jaws, the outer largest and mostly bicuspid, 36 to 60 in 

 upper jaw, the others tricuspid ; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, 

 width of scaly part below eye equal to or a little less than diameter of 

 eye. Gill-rakers short, 8 or 9 on' lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 XV-XVI 9-10; spines equal from the eighth or ninth, or slightly 

 increasing in length to the last, which measures ^ to i length of head ; 

 longest s^'oft ray 4 to f length of head. Anal III 8-9 ; third spine 

 nearly as long as and stronger than last dorsal. Pectoral as long as 

 head or a little shorter, reaching vertical of origin of anal or a little 



