PAKATILAP1A. 



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1. PARATILAPIA POLLENI. 

 Bleek. Vers]. Ak. Amsterd. ii. 1868, p. 307, and Poiss. Madag. p. 10, pi. v. 



fig. 2 (1875) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxxxii. i. 1880, p. 247 ; Sauv. Hist. 



Madag., Poiss. p. 443, pi. xliv. fig. 2 (1891) ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, 



p. 138 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 257. 

 Paracara typus, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Amsterd. xii. 1878, p. 193, pi. iii. fig. 3; Sauv. 



op. cit. p. 438, pi. xliv a, fig. 8, & c, fig. 1. 

 Paratilapia bleekeri, Sauv. op. cit. p. 444, pi. xliv. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. t. c. p. 139. 

 P'aratilapia typus, Bouleng. 1. c. 



Depth of body 2 to 2f times in total length, length of head 2| to 2| 

 times. Head twice or a little less than twice as long as broad ; snout 



Paratilapia polleni. 

 After Sauvage {op. cit.). 



rounded, with straight or concave upper profile, as long as broad or 

 broader than long, shorter than postocular part of head ; eye o\ (young) 

 to 6 times in length of head, about f interorbital width in adult, equal 

 to or greater than praeorbital depth ; mouth very protractile, extending 

 to below anterior border or anterior third of eye ; prsemaxillary processes 

 very long, extending to between the eyes ; teeth in 3 to 5 series, outer 

 largest, 30 to 50 in upper jaw; 4 to 6 series of scales on the cheek, 

 width of scaly part equal to or greater than diameter of eye. Gill- 

 rakers moderately long, 7 to 10 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 X-XIII 10-12 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures 

 ^ to | length of head ; middle soft rays more or less produced, some- 



