PAEATILAPIA. 



333 



Caudal peduncle 1| to 2 times as long as deep. Scales feebly den- 

 ticulate, 33-40 yrsal lateral lines ^"j^^". Olive to emerald-green above, 

 silvery white beneath, with or without a blackish lateral band, or 

 uniform dark brown; a small blackish opercular spot; d(;rsal and 

 caudal fins grey to dark brown, sometimes with small round darker 



Fig. 223. 



Paratilapia longirostris. 

 Bunjako (F. N.). f. 



spots; ventral fin yellow in the female, black in tlie male; anal fin 

 uniform yellow in the female, deep orange, with one to three large 

 ocellar spots encircled with red, in the male. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Lake Victoria and Victoria Nile. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



1-7, 8. Ad. & hgr. 

 9-13. Ad. & jg. 

 14, Skel. 



15. Hgr. 



16-17. Ad. & yg. 



18. Ad. 



19-20. Hgr. & yg. 



Bunjako. 



Entebbe. 



Buganga. 

 Sesse Ids. 



Jinja, Eipon Falls. 

 Bululo, L. Kioga. 



Mr. E. Degcn (C). 



Dr. E. Bayon (C.) ; 

 Genoa Museum (P.). 



17. PARATILAPIA PROGNATHA. 



Pelleor. Mem. Soc. Zoul. France, xvii. 1905, p. 181, pi. xvi. fig. 4; Bouleng. 

 Fish. Nile, p. 469, pi. Ixxxvi. fig. 3 (1907) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. Fiance, 

 xxii. 1910, p. 288 ; Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (3) v. 1911, p. 65. 



Paratilapia serranus, part., Boideng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. 161. 



Intermediate between P. serranus and P. longirostris. Distinguished 



from the former by the strongly projecting lower jaw and pointed chin. 



