506 



CJCHLID.E. 



35-37^'; lateral lines '-fif, lower not extending to root of caudal. 

 Uniform dark bmwn ; a round blackish spot above the axil ; pectoral 

 yellowish. 



Total length 170 raillim. 



Madagascar. — Type in Leyden Museum. 

 1. Ad. Imerina. Rev. R. Baron (C). 



Fig. 351. 



Paretroplus pnhjactis. 

 Tamatave. 



■2. PARETROPLUS POLYACTIS. 

 Bleek. Versl. Ak. Amsterd. xii. 1«78, p. 195, jd. iii. fig. 2 ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., 



Poiss. p. 446, pis. xliv. a. fig. 7, and xliv. B. fig. 2 (1891) ; Bouleng. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 142 ; Pellegr. M^m. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, 



p. 359. 

 Paretroplus damii (non Bleek.), Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. i. 1880, 



p. 247. 



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

 Head 2 to 2J times as long as broad ; snout strongly compressed, 1^ 

 times as long as eye, which is 4 to 4J times in length of head and 1^ to 

 1^ times in interorbital width ; mouth extending to between nostril and 

 eye ; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, depth of scaly part equal to 

 or a little less than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 11 or 12 on 

 lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIII 17-18 ; last spine 



