372 



CICHLID^. 



51. PARATILAPIA LEPTOSOMA. 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 14, pi. iii. fig. 4, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 427 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 271. 



Depth of body 4 to 4^ times in total length, length of head 3 to 

 3j times. Head 2^ to 2^ times as long as broad, with straight or 

 slightly concave upper profile ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as broad, 

 shorter than postocular part of head, as long as or a little longer than 

 eye, which is 3J to 3§ times in length of head, equals interorbital 

 Avidth, and much exceeds prseorbital depth ; mouth very protractile, 

 prsemaxillary processes very long and extending to between orbits ; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye, or not quite so 

 far; teeth small, in 3 series, about 60 in outer series of upper jaw; 

 2 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part about ^ diameter 



Fig. 253. 





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Paratilajjia leptosoma. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). f . 



of eye. Gill-rakers long and closely set, about 20 on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal XII-XI V 14-16 ; spines increasing in length to 

 the last, which measures f length of head and nearly equals lon<j-est soft 

 rays. Anal III 10-12 ; third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. 

 Pectoral f to f length of head, reaching or nearly reaching vertical 

 of origin of anal. Ventral reaching origin of anal. Caudal deeply 

 notched. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales rather strongly 

 denticulate, 39-42 ~; lateral lines fg. Brown above, lighter 

 beneath; dorsal and anal with or without brown longitudinal streaks ; 

 caudal often spotted with brown or black at the base. 



Total length 92 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



1-^- '^yV<^'- Mbete. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



3. Type. Kiiiyanikolo. 



4-6. Ad. Msambu. 



7. Skol. 



