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anal. Ventral reaching vent or anal. Caudal truncate. Caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales feebly denticulate, 

 33-40 ntA ; lateral lines yo^. Greyish or olive above, silvery white 



beneath ; indistinct traces of darker cross-bands sometimes present ; 

 a feebly marked dark opercular spot ; a dark bar sometimes present 

 below the eye ; dorsal and caudal fins grey, the soft part of the former 

 and the upper h:df of the latter with round darker spots ; ventrals and 



Fte. 230. 



Paratilapia victoriana. 

 Bunjako (F. N.). f . 



anal yellow in females ; males with the ventral black and the anal red, 

 the latter with two or three orange ocellar spots. 



Total length 140 millim. 



Lake Victoria and Victoria Nile. — Type in Paris Museum. 



1-5. Ad. Bunjako. Mr. E. Degen (C). 



6-7. Ad. Entebbe. „ 



8-i0. Ad. &hgr. Sesse Ids. Dr. E. Bayon (('.); Genou Museum (P.). 



11—13. Ad. & hgr. Jiirja, Ripon Falls. ,, „ 



25. PARATILAPIA GRANTI. 



Haplocliromis granti, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 446. 

 Paratilapia granti, Bouleng. Fisbes Nile, p. 476, pi. lxxxvii. fig. 4 (1907). 



Depth of body equal to or a little greater than length of head, which 

 is 2f to 3^ times in total length. Head about twice as long as broad, 

 upper profile curved ; snout broader and deeper than long, as long as 

 eye, which is 3^ to 3§ times in length of head, equals interorbital 

 width and lj to H times praeorbital depth; mouth nearly horizontal or 

 slightly oblique, extending to below anterior border of e\e, or not quite 



