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CICHLID.f:. 



Caudal with deep crescentic notch. Caudal peduncle Ij times as long 

 as deep. Scales denticulate, 36-38 ^yn^; lateral lines jijEis' ^^e upper 

 extending to the caudal peduncle, or to the root of the caudal. Grey 

 or olive above, Avhite beneath; four yellow stripes along each side; 

 ])ectorals yellowish, other fins dark grey or blackish. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika.^Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. Moliro. Oiipt. Lemaire (C). 



2. Ad. Sumbu. Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C). 



3. Ad. Lofu R. 



Fig. 2.50. 



ramtUapia furcifera. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). 



48. PARATILAPIA FURCIFERA. 

 Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. U, pi. iy. fig. 1, and Roiss. Basf. Congo, 

 p. 425 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 273; Bouleno-! 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1906, p. 563. ' "" 



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

 Head twice as long as broad ; snout with curved upper profile, rounded, 

 broader than long, as long as or a little shorter than postocular part of 

 head, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 2§ to 3 times in 



