PAEATILAPIA. 



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stripe along each side, either from the gill-cover to the base of the 

 caudal or from below the origin of the dorsal, above the lateral line, to 

 the base of the caudal ; a blackish spot on each side of the snout and 

 another on the operculum ; fins whitish or greyish, dorsal often with 

 brown spots. 



Total length 240 millim. 



Lake Nyassa and Upper Shire River. 



1. Skin, type. 



2. Skin, one of the types o£ 

 C laterislriga. 



3. Ad. 



4. Skel. 

 5-6. Ad. 

 7. Ad. 



L. N 



yassa. 



Upper Shird. 



Fig. 245. 



Sir J. Kh-k (0.). 

 Dr. Livingstone ((J.) ; 



Earl Russell (P.). 

 Prof. J. E. S.Moore (C). 



Capt. E. L. Rhoades (P.). 

 Dr. Percy Rendall (C.) ; 

 Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 



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Paratilapia rhoadesit. 



Type. 



4:2. PARATILAPIA RHOADESII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. K H. (8) ii. 1908, p. 239. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad, with curved upper profile ; lower jaw not 

 or but slightly projecting; snout rounded, as long as broad, as long as 

 postocular part of head ; eye 5 to 5f times in length of head, 2 to 2|- 

 times in length of snout, 1^ to If times in interorbital width, f prte- 

 orbital depth ; mouth not extending to below anterior border of eye ; 



