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third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral a little shorter 

 than head, not reaching vertical of origin of anal. Ventral reaching 

 vent or origin of anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduucle as long as 

 deep. Scales cycloid, 34-37 ff5r| ; lateral lines pffg- Brownish, with 

 or without nine rather indistinct dark bars ; dorsal fin edged with 

 yellowish ; soft dorsal and caudal with numerous round blackish spots ; 

 anal with round white or brownish (red *) spots ; ventrals blackish. 



Total length 200 millim. 



Lake Bangwelu and Upper Zambesi *. 



1. Type. L. Bangwelu. F. H. Melland, Esq., and 



Father Foulon (P.). 

 2-3. Ad. „ F. H. Melland, Esq. (P.). 



40. PARATILAPIA NOTOT^NIA. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 69 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 

 xvi. 1904, p. 264. 



Depth of body 2§ times in total length, length of head 3 times. 

 Head twice as long as broad, with strongly curved upper profile ; snout 

 rounded, a little broader than long, shorter than postocular part of 

 head ; eye 4 times in length of head, a little less than interorbital 

 width or praeorbital depth ; mouth extending to below anterior border 

 of eye; teeth in 5 series, outer largest, about 70 in upper jaw; 3 series 

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

 Gill-rakers short, 11 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVII 10; 

 spines increasing in length to the last, which measures a little more 

 than f length of head. Anal III 9 ; third spine ^ length of head. 

 Caudal scaly, feebly but distinctly emarginate. Caudal peduncle nearly 

 1| times as long as broad. Scales finely denticulate, 36 ^ > l a ^ral 

 lines ^j. Brown above, white beneath ; a blackish band along each 

 side of the back, above the lateral line ; dorsal fin with regular series 

 of round brown spots between the rays ; anal and ventrals blackish. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Lake Nyassa. 

 1. Type. L. Nyassa. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



* I have examined a specimen from the Kafue River, preserved in the Bulawayo 

 Museum. 



