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the <strong>Cichlid</strong> Pishm <strong>of</strong> <strong>Lake</strong> Nyma. 95This species appears to be closely related to Chilotilapiarhoadesii; but differs in the structure <strong>of</strong> mouth and dentition.39. Haplochromis holotsnia.Paratilapia dimidiatn (part.) Boulenger, Cat. Afr. Fish. iii. p. 360,fig. 244 (1915).Haplochromis holotmia Regan, t. e. p. 697.Haplochromis bodyi Ahl, Sitzungsber. Gee. naturf. Fr. Berlin, July1926 (1927), p. 58.Twelve specimens, 170 to 200 mm. in total length, all(except perhaps the type) from the north end <strong>of</strong> the lake.<strong>The</strong> types <strong>of</strong> H. bodyi have also been examined by me.<strong>The</strong>y mere taken at Langenburg.40. Haplochromis kiwinge Ahl.Haplochromis kiwinge Ahl, t. c. p. 56.Haplochromis fuelleborni (not Tilapia fuellebornii Hilgendorf & Pappenhoim),Ahl, t. o. p. 58.Fifty specimens, 125 to 290 mm. in total length, from bothends <strong>of</strong> the lake. Also thirty-three young <strong>of</strong> 50 to 117 mm.<strong>The</strong> types <strong>of</strong> H. kiwinge and H. fuelleborni have bee:]examined by me in Berlin.41. Haplochrornis strigatus Regan.Haplochromia strigatus Regan, t. c. p. 697, text-fig. 13.Sixty-four specimens, 108 to 223 mm. in total length, andtcn young, 48 to 100 rnm. long, from all parts <strong>of</strong> the lake.42. Haplochromis dimidiatus (Giinther), 1864.flaplochromis dintidiatus Regan, t. C. p. 698.Thirty specimens, 100 to 220 mm. in total length, and sixyoung fish (65 to 95 mm.), from both ends <strong>of</strong> the lake, butmainly from the north.43. Haplochromis subocularis (Giinther), 1893.Chromis subocularis Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 621,pl. liv. fig. B.Haplochromis subocularis Regan, t. C. p. 600.Twenty-five specimens, 100 to 160 mm. in total length,from the south end <strong>of</strong> the lake.This species appears to be related to H. eriwtaznia, but isintermediate in colour-pattern between that species andH. kirkii etc. It differs from H. ericotaznia in having morescales in a longitudinal series (32 to 35, as against 30 to 33 inH. ericotznia) ; also the teeth in the jaws are usually in fewerscriea (3 to 5, as against 4 to 8 in H. ericotania), with 40 to 60in outer series <strong>of</strong> upper jaw (48 to 60 in H. ericotania) ; tho

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