300 CICHLID.E. 



third spine as long as or a little longer than last dorsal, about ^ to f 

 length of head. Pectoral f to § length of head, not reaching origin of 

 anal. Ventral rarely reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 

 as long as deep. Scales rather strongly denticulate, 25-29 j^ ; lateral 

 lines g^ , often represented merely by pits instead of tubules. Greyish 

 or olive, with or without more or less regular dark vertical bars and 

 with or without an interrupted blackish stripe along the side of the 

 body; a dark bar often extends from below the anterior third of the eye 

 to the mouth ; a black spot on the operculum and another at the root 

 of the caudal fin ; vertical fins with small dark spots ; soft dorsal and 

 anal fins dark in the males, with transverse series of white spots, which 

 may be confluent into streaks ; males sometimes with dark bars across 

 the caudal fin, and with a red spot at the end of the anal fin. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Lower Egypt to Uganda and German East Africa. — Types in Hamburg 

 Museum. 



1-5, 6-7. Ad. L. Mareotis, near Alexandria. H. Schoeller, Esq. (P.). 



8-21, 22. Ad., hgr., Kaka, White Nile. L. Loat, Esq. (C ). 



& yg. 



23-32, 33-42, 13-57. Gharb-el-Aish, White Nile. 



Ad., hgr., & yg. 



58-67. Ad. & yg. Fashoda, White Nile. „ 



68. Ad. Gondokoro, Bahr-el-Gebel. „ 



69-70. Ad. Bujiju, South Buddu, Uganda. M. T. Dawe, Esq. (P.). 



71. Ad. L. Mohasi, Ruanda, W. o£ L. Dr. H. Schubotz (C.) ; 



Victoria. German C. African 



Exped. 



72. Oue of the types. Mbusini, German E. Africa. Dr. Stuhlmann (C.) ; 



Hamburg Museum (E.). 



13. HAPLOCHROMIS MOFFATI. 



Chromys moffati, Casteln. Cat. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 16 (1861). 



Chromis (Ctenochromis) philander, M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 148. 



Paratilapia moffati, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 140 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. 



Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 259. 

 Tilapia philander, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 136 ; Pellegr. t. c. p. 340. 

 Uaplochromis moffati, Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 504 (1907), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xviii. 



1911, p. 415 ; Schreitmiiller, Bl. Aq. Terr. K. xxiii. 1912, p. 724, fig. 



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

 length. Snout with straight or slightly convex upper profile, longer 



