3 / 4 CICHLID^E. 



53. PARATILAPIA CALLIUP.A. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vii. 1901, p. 2, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 422 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 151, pi. xix. fig. 3 ; Pellegr. Mem. 

 Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 269. 



Depth of body 4 to 4| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3J 

 times. Head 2h times as long as broad, with straight or slightly convex 

 upper profile ; lower jaw projecting ; snout pointed, as long as broad, 

 as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 3 to 3^ times in length 

 of head, and measures at least twice interorbital width or least prseorbital 

 width ; mouth very protractile, prremaxillary processes very long and 

 extending to between orbits ; maxillary extending to below anterior 



Fis. 255. 



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Paratilapia culliura. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1901). 



fourth of eye ; teeth very small, in 2 series, about 80 in outer series of 

 upper jaw ; 2 or 3 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part 

 about 7? diameter of eye. Gill-rakers moderately large, 15 on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-X VII 10 ; spines increasing in 

 length to the last, which measures f to i length of head ; longest soft 

 rays § to -f length of head. Anal III 7-8 ; third spine a little shorter 

 than last dorsal. Pectoral a little shorter than head. Ventral reaching 

 vent. Caudal truncate or feebly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 1-| times 



2—3 



as long as deep. Scales rather strongly denticulate, 37-40 ^■ ) ; lateral 



lines 



25-29 

 13-VJ. 



Pale brownish above, silvery beneath ; a blackish opercular 

 spot, dorsal and anal edged with black ; 4 or 5 black bars across the 

 caudal ; young with black bars across the dorsal. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 



1-3. Types. Kalambo. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



4. Skel. 



