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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 
Genus CAESIOPERCA Castelnau, 1872. 
Caesioperca Castlenau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soo. Viet, i, July 15, 1872, p. 49. Orthotype 
Serranus rasor Richardson. 
Lacepedia Castlenau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Viet, ii, May 10, 1873, p. 42. Haplotype, 
L. cataphracta Castelnau, from Victoria. 
The identity of Lacepedia has always been in question and the genus has 
usually been associated with the Cheilodactylidae because of the simple nature of the 
lower pectoral rays. However, the characters of Lacepedia given by Castelnau agree 
with those of Caesioperca, of which it must evidently fall as a synonym, and 
Lacepedia cataphracta will be relegated to the 83 nonymy of Caesioperca rasor 
(Richardson). 
Subfamily Cephalopholtnae. 
Genus CEPHALOPHOLIS Bloch and Schneider, 1801. 
CEPHALOPHOLIS COATESI sp . nov. 
(Plate XII). 
D. ix/15 ; A. iii/9 ; Sc. circa 85. L. tr. 10/1/40 circa. 
Depth of body (90 mm.) less than length of head (103). Pectoral, 69 mm. 
Eye (17) subequal to interorbital space. Standard length, 265 mm. 
Long caniniform teeth in jaws, with one or two somewhat enlarged (but not 
greatly curved) on either side of each symphysis. Preopercle spineless. 
General characters of the allied species of Cephalopliolis, but with distinctive 
coloration, imlike any species known to me. 
Third anal spine longest. Caudal rounded. 
General colom*, in formalin, whitish, the head and soft unpaired fins sparsely 
spotted with brown. Top of head brownish. Four dark brown blotches on each side 
of dorsal base, and two brown saddle-marks on caudal peduncle. Sides and belly 
plain, except that viscera show bluish. Eye blue. A narrow dusky edge to ventrals 
and anal. 
Described and figured from the holotype, a specimen 265 mm. in standard 
length, or just over a foot in total length, from Slasher’s Reef, Townsville, Queensland 
(Qld. Mus. regd. No. I. 5504). 
Named after Mr. George Coates, who has discovered a number of interesting 
species of fishes in north Queensland, and has given many valuable specimens to the 
Queensland Museum. 
