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of anal or beyond. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 1| to H times 

 as long as deep. Scales feebly denticulate, 30-34 ^^ ; lateral lines 

 ion^- Males grey or brown, with or without darker bars on the sides, 

 the belly sometimes blackish ; a dark vertical bar below the eye ; 

 vertical fins dark brown, anal sometimes with two or three large bright 

 ocellar spots; ventrals black or blackish. Females uniform brown 

 above and white beneath, with a more or less distinct dark opercular 

 spot ; fins greyish, soft dorsal and caudal with small round lower spots. 



Total length 150 millim. 



Lake Kivu. — Types in Berlin Museum. 



1-2. Two o£ the types. L. Kivu. Dr. H. Schuhotz (C.) ; 



German C. African Exped. 



12. HAPLOCHROMIS STRIGIGENA. 



Ctenochromis strigigena, Pt'efE. Jahrb. Hamh. Wiss. Anst. x. 1893, p. 155, pi. ii. 



figs. 5-8, and Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 18, fig. (1896). 

 Ckromis multicolor, Schoeller, Bl. Aq. Terr. K. xiv. 1903, p. 185, fig. 

 Paratilapia multicolor, Hilgend. Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1903, p. 429. 

 Uiiplochromis strigigena, Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 497, pi. xc. fig. 2 (1907). 



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

 Snout with straight or slightly convex profile, as long as or a little 



Fig. 203. 



Haplocliromis strigigena. 

 Alexandria (F. N.). 



shorter than eye, which is 3 to 3^ times in length of head and equals 

 interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below anterior border of 

 eye; 3 or 4 series of small, closely-set teeth in each jaw, those of the 

 outer series a little larger, bicuspid in females and young, unicuspid in 

 males ; 3 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part a little less 

 than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers very short, 7 to 9 on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal X1II-XV 8-10 ; spines subequal or increasing 

 slightly in length posteriorly, the last about \ length of head ; soft 

 portion rounded, longest ray \ to f length of head. Anal III 6-8 ; 



