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CICHLIDiE. 



vertical of origin of anal. Ventral reaching between vent and anal. 

 Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales cycloid, 

 33 H ; lateral lines j^|. Dark brown above, whitish beneath ; a black 

 opercular spot and three ill-defined black spots on the side below upper 

 lateral line ; soft dorsal and anal fins with round light spots between 

 the rays. 



Total length 360 millim. 



Upper Zambesi. 

 1. Type. Kafue R., N.W. Rhodesia. T. Codrington, Esq. (P.). 



Tilapia kafuensis. 

 Type. i. 



5. TILAPIA MOSSAMBICA. 



Chromis (Tilapia) mossambicus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 681. 



Chromis niloticus, part., Peters, Arch. £. Nat. 1855, p. 267 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iv. 



p. 510 (1862) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 23, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1868). 

 Chromis mossambicus, part., Giinth. t. c. p. 268. 

 Chromis diunerilii, Steind.. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. "Wien, xiv. 1864, p. 225, pi. vii. 



fig. 1 *. 

 Chromis niloticus, var. mossambicus, M. Web. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897/ 



p. 148. 



* I am indebted to Dr. Steindachner for the loan of one of the types of Chromis 

 dumerilii, and regard it as a young T. mossambica. 



