. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 296 CICHLID^. as long as deep. Scales strongly denticulate, 30-34 ^^ ; lateral lines ^^. Most males reddish brown above, greyish beneath; throat and opercle blackish ; a V-shaped blackish band, pointing forwards, on the nape; a blackish vertical bar below the anterior border of the eye; ill-defined blackish s])ots on the side of the body, partly confluent into one or two longitudinal bands ; dorsal grey, anal yellow, both blackish at the base, the latter with two or three lar
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 296 CICHLID^. as long as deep. Scales strongly denticulate, 30-34 ^^ ; lateral lines ^^. Most males reddish brown above, greyish beneath; throat and opercle blackish ; a V-shaped blackish band, pointing forwards, on the nape; a blackish vertical bar below the anterior border of the eye; ill-defined blackish s])ots on the side of the body, partly confluent into one or two longitudinal bands ; dorsal grey, anal yellow, both blackish at the base, the latter with two or three large orange ocellar spots encircled with red ; caudal fin greyish, blackish in the middle; ventral fins black. Females brownish above, with rather indistinct dark cross- bars, with the subocular bar less distinct, and the ventrals yellowish. Some specimens entirely dark brown or blackish. Total length 120 millim. Lake Victoria and Victoria Nile. Fig. 1-2. Types. 3-4. Types. 5-8. Types. 9. Ad. 10-12. Ad. 13-14. Ad. Ad. Uaploclwomis stanJeyi. Type (F. N.). Buganga. Bunjako. Entebbe. Sesse Islands. Jinja, Eipon Falls. Kakindu, Victoria XiJe. Mr. E. Degen (C). M. (J. Alluand (C.) ; Paris Museum (E.). Dr. E. Bayon (0.) ; Genoa Museum (P.). 10. HAPLOCHROMIS PERCOIDES. Buulcug. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 443, Fish. Nile, p. 496, pi. xc. fig. 1 (1907), and Ann. Mus. Geneva, (3) v. 1911, p. 70. Adatotilapia nigrescens, Pellegr. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxiv. 1909, p. 157, and Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xxii. 1910, p. 292, pi. xiv. fig. 3. Haplochromis tiiijrescens, Bouleng. Ann. jMus. Geneva, (3) v. 1911, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Tayl
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