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CICHLID^E. 



as long as deep or slightly deeper than long. Scales finely denticulate, 

 33-34 yi ; lateral lines j^f 7 . Dark brown above, white beneath ; a 

 black opercular spot ; vertical fins with round black spots ; paired fins 

 whitish, ventrals black in the males. 



Total length 255 millhn. 



Zambesi near Victoria Falls. — Type in S. African Museum. 

 1-2. Ad. Kafue R. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 



Paratilapia carlottce. 

 Type (Anu. S. Afr. Mus. 1905). 



36. PARATILAPIA GIBBICEPS. 

 Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xviii. 1911, p. 411, pi. xliii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 2 \ times in total length, length of head 3-g- to 3y 

 times. Head nearly twice as long as broad, upper profile very convex 

 above the eye ; snout rounded, a little broader than long, shorter than 

 postocular part of head ; eye 4^ to 4J times in length of head, 1 j times 

 in interorbital width, equal to prasorbital depth ; mouth extending to 

 below anterior border of eye ; teeth in outer series rather small, about 

 60 in upper jaw, followed by 2 series of minute teeth; 4 series of scales 

 on the cheek, width of scaly part a little greater than diameter of eye. 

 Lower pharyngeal teeth with spherical crowns. Gill-rakers short, 

 posterior T-shaped, 10 or 11 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 



