PAEATILAPIA. oGy 



light spots, in males with a broad yellow edge; pectorals yellowish, 

 ventrals dark brown or black. 



Total length 200 millim. 



Lake Nyassa. 



1. Skin, type. L. Nyassa. Sir J. Kirk (C). 



2-7. Ad. & hgr. „ Capt. E. L. Rhondes (P.). 



8. Skel. 



9-10. Ad. Between Kondowe and A. Whyte, Esq. (C.) ; 



Karonga. Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 



4.5. PATIATILAPIA SCHWEBISCHI. 

 Hemicliromis schivehiscM, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 198, pi. v. fig. 2. 

 Paratilapia scJni-ebischi, Bonleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 144 ; Pellegr. Mem. 

 Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 268. 



Depth of body 2f times in total length, length of head 2|- to 2| times. 

 Head about twice as long as broad ; snout with concave upper profile, 

 a little more than twice as long as eye, which is 5^ times in length of 

 head and twice in interorbital width ; mouth extending a little beyond 

 the vertical of the nostril ; teeth in broad bands, in 5 series, 80 to 8't 

 in outer series of upper jaw; 3 series of scales on the cheek, width of 

 scaly part equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers rather short, 20 to 22 on 

 lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XV 11 ; spines increasing in length 

 to the last, which is a little less than ^ as long as head and f length 

 of longest soft rays. Anal III 9. Pectoral as long as head. Ventral 

 reaching anal. Caudal slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle as long 



S— 18— '^0 



as deep. Scales cycloid, 29-30 f^ ; lateral lines jj^. Olive, scales ou 

 posterior part of body golden in the centre ; spinous dorsal marbled 

 with purplish ; posterior part of soft dorsal and caudal with blue 

 spots ; pectorals and ventrals whitish. 



Total length 320 millim. 



Upper Ogowe.— -Type, in Paris Museum, examined. 



46. PARATILAPIA VENTRALIS. 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 13, pi. iii. fig. 3, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 424 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool France, xvi. 1904, p. 270 ; Bouleng. 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 190(5, p. 563. 

 Depth of body 2^ to 3 times in total length, length of head 3 times. 



