398 



CICHLID.E. 



brown ; dorsal dark brown, whitish at the base ; anal with a few round 

 white spots ; ventrals blackish. 



Total length 125 millirn. 



Angola. 

 1. Type. Fluilla. Dr. Welwitsch (P.). 



14. PELMATOCHROMIS KINGSLEY2E. 



Hemichromis schwebischi (non Sauv.), Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvii. 1896, 



p. 273. 

 Chromidotilapia kingsleyce, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 151, pi. xix. fig. 2 ; 



Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 718. 

 Pelmatochromis kingsleyce, Peliegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 190i, p. 278. 



Depth of body 2^ to 2f times in total length, length of head 2f to 3 

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



Fig. 269. 



K^>^k^ 



Pelmatochromis kingsleyce. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1898). f . 



obtusely pointed, with straight or convex upper profile, as long as broad, 

 1 (young) to 2 times as long as eye, which is 3 (young) to 4| times in 

 length of head, and equals or nearly equals interorbital width or prae- 

 orbital depth ; mouth moderate, extending to between nostril and eye ; 

 teeth in a single or double series, the inner, if present, short and 

 irregular, those of the outer series rather large, 44 to 60 in the upper jaw, 

 some with the crown bent at an angle to the shaft ; 3 or 4 series of scales 

 on the cheek, width of scaly part equal to diameter of eye or a little less. 

 Gill-rakers short and broad, tubercular, 9 to 12 on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Dorsal XIV-XVI 10-12 ; spines increasing in length to the last, 



