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CICHLID^. 



as long as deep or slightly deeper than long. Scales finely denticulate, 

 33-34 A; lateral lines ?g?. Dark brown above, white beneath; a 

 black opercular spot; vertical fins with round black spots ; paued fins 

 whitish, ventrals black in the males. 



Total length 255 millim. 



Zambesi near Victoria Falls.-Type in S. African Museum. 

 1_2. Ad. Kafue E. D- J- O- F- Gilchrist (P.). 



FiK. 239. 



Faratilapia carlvUie. 

 Type (Auu. S. Afr. Mus. 1905). |. 



.36. PAUATILAPIA GIBBI(JEP8. 

 Bouleiig. Tr. Zool. Soe. xviii. 1911, p. 411, \)\. xliii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 2| times in total length, length of head 5^ to d^ 

 times. Head nearly twice as long as broad, upper profile very convex 

 above the eye ; snout rounded, a little broader than long, shorter than 

 postocular part of head ; eye 4^ to 4J times in length of head, 1| times 

 in interorbital width, equal to prseorbital depth; mouth extending to 

 below anterior border of eye ; teeth in outer series rather small, about 

 6(1 in upper jaw, followed by 2 series of minute teeth ; 4 series of scales 

 on the cheek, width of scaly part a little greater than diameter of eye. 

 Lower pharyngeal teeth with spherical crowns. Gill-rakers short, 

 posterior T-shaped, 10 or 11 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 



