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of scaly part less than diameter of eye. GiU-rakers short, 8 or 9 on 

 lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVII 9 ; spines increasing 

 in length to the last, which measures f length of head ; longest soft 

 rays nearly l length of head. Anal III 8-9; third spine longest, as 

 long as last dorsal. Pectoral | length of head, nearly reaching vertical 

 of origin of anal. Ventral i caching origin of anal. Caudal truncate. 

 Caudal peduncle IJ to 1| times as long as deep. Scales rather strongly 

 denticulate, 31-32 j^; lateral lines f~^. Brownish above, whitish 

 beneath ; six or seven dark transverse bars, crossed by a dark 



Fig. 228. 





Paratilapia chilotes. 

 Type (Ann. Mus. Gen. 1911), 



longitudinal band extending from the eye to the caudal fin ; fins 

 brownish, anal with three round bright spots. 



Total length 98 millim. 



Victoria Nile at Ripon Falls. — Type in Genoa Museum. 

 1. One of the types. Jinja. Dr. E. Buyon (C.) ; Genoa Museum (P.). 



22. TARATILAPIA PECTORALIS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (3) v. 1911, p. 66, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Depth of body a little less than length of head, 3 times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad; snout with convex upper profile, If 

 diameters of eye, which is 4^ times in length of head, 1| times in inter- 

 orbital width, and equals least depth of preeorbital ; jaws equal in front ; 



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