-IIS 



CICHLID.£. 



31. PELMATOCHROMIS FLAVIPINNIS. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mug. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 441, and Fish. Nile, p. 448, 

 pi. Ixxxix. fig. 3 (1907). 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. Head 

 large, slightly more than twice as long as broad, with concave upper 

 profile ; snout as long as broad, 1% times as long as eye, which is 5 times 

 in length of head, 1| times in interorbital width, and equals prceorbital 

 depth ; mouth oblique, not extending quite to below anterior border of 

 eye ; lower jaw projecting ; teeth in 3 or 4 series, outer largest and 

 curved, 58 in upper jaw ; 6 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly 

 part much greater than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 9 on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal XV 9 ; spines increasing in length to the 

 last, which measures 3- length of head ; longest soft rays a little more than 

 ■5 length of head. Anal III 8 ; third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. 

 .Pectoral |- length of head, not reaching origin of anal. Ventral reaching 

 vent. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as deep. 



Fig. 286. 



^Itiiife 



Pelmutochromis Jkivipinnis. 

 Type (F. K). ft. 



Scales denticulate, 31 p 2 ; lateral lines ^. Yellowish, tinged with orange 

 on the sides, with four broad olive-brown cross-bands on the upper half 

 of the body ; an interrupted dark streak on each side from above the 

 gill-cover to the base of the tail ; head speckled with brown ; an angular 

 olive-brown band, pointing backwards, from eye to eye on the occiput ; 

 a broad blackish band from below the anterior half of the eye to the 

 mouth ; a blackish vertical bar on the praeoperculum ; an oblique 

 blackish bar, involving the opercular spot, behind the gill-cover ; fins 



