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CICHLID.E. 



Brown or olive above, whitish beneath, often with two dark bars across 

 the snout and another below the anterior third of the eye; border of 

 lower jaw and lower limb of praeoperculum sometimes dark brown ; 

 sometimes a dark band on the side of the head behind the eye ; 

 opercular spot more or less distinct, or absent ; dorsal and caudal 

 usually with numerous small dark spots, the former sometimes edged 

 with blackish ; a series of large bright ocellar spots often present on 

 the anal. 



Total length 95 millim. 



Lakes Tanganyika and Kivu. 



1. Type. Ujiji, L. Tanganyika. 



2-11. Ad., ligr., & yg. Kitutu, 

 ] 2-13, 14-15. Hgr. & yg. Mtondwe Bay, „ 



Lufuko R., „ 

 Pond at Tembwe, 

 L. Tanganyika. 

 L. Kivu. 



16-17. Hgr. 

 18-22. Yg. 



E. Coode Hore, Esq. (C). 

 Dr. W. A. Cnnnington (C). 



>> 

 Dr. L. Stappers (C). 



23-32. Ad. & hgr. 

 33. Skel. 



Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



52. TILAPIA AOUTICEPS. 



Chromis acuticeps, Steind. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien,xvi. 1866, p. 764 ; Bouleng. 



Boll. Mus. Torin. xi. 1896, no. 260. 

 Tilapia acuticeps, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 134; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. 



Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 340. 



Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, about 



Fig. 141. 



Tilapia acuticeps. 

 Luculla R. 



3 times in total length. Head a little more than twice as long as 

 broad ; snout with straight upper profile, as long as broad, shorter than 

 postocular part of head, a little longer than eye, which is 3| to 4 times 

 in length of head, equals interorbital width, and a little exceeds least 



