156 



CICHLID^E. 



30—33 -jaEis ; Literal lines ,^5. Brownish, olive, or blackish; vertical 

 fins and ventrals blackish ; dorsal and caudal edged with yellowish 

 (red]). 



Total length 360 millira. 



East Africa to Natal. Types in Berlin Museum. 



1-2. Ad. 



3-4. Two of the 



types. 

 5. Ad. 



G. A J. 



7. Ad. 



8. Ad. 



Zanzibar Coast. 

 Zambesi. 



Upper Shire R. 



Koso Bay, Zulnland. 

 Durban. 



Sir J. Kirk (P.). 

 Prof. W. Peters (P.). 



Dr. Percy Rendall (C.) ; 



Sir H. li. Johnston (P.). 

 Dr. E. Warren (P.). 

 Mr. T. Ayres (C.J. 

 Rev. N. Abraham (P.). 



Fig. 102. 



-^3^ 



Tilapia vorax. 

 Type, after Pfeffer (Jahrb. Hamb. WisB. Anst. 1893). f . 



6. TILAPIA VORAX. 



Chromis vorax, Pfeff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. 1893, p. 151, pi. ii. figs. 9-11, 



and Thierw. O.-AL'r., Fische, p. 12, fig. (1896). 

 Tilapia vorax, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 125 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. 



France, xvi. 1904, p. 322. 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 2J to 2-f times in total 

 length. Head twice as long as broad; snout with straight upper profile. 



