FURTHER ICHTHYOLOQIGAL MISCELLANEA. 
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CEPHALOPHOLIS PACHYCENTRON (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 
Serranus pachycentron Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, Oct. 1828, p. 295. 
No locality (=East Indies). 
Cephalopholis pachycentron Fowler and Bean, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 100, x, 1930, p. 220, 
fig. 9 (refs, and synon.). 
One specimen, 154 mm. in standard length (Qld. Mus. regd. No. I. 5613) from 
Four foot Rocks, off Cape Cleveland, north Queensland ; presented by Mr. George 
Coates. 
CEPHALOPHOLIS MINIATUS FORMOSANUS Tanaka. 
Perea miniata Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. lohth. 1788, p. 131. Based on Forskal, 
non-binom. Red Sea. 
Cephalopholis formosamis Tanaka, Fish. Japan ii, June 15, 1911, p. 24, pi. vii, fig. 22. 
Taihoku, Formosa, 
Cephalopholis miniatus Fowler and Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, x, 1930, p. 210, fig. 8 
(refs, and synon.). 
One specimen 255 mm. in standard length, labelled Cephalopholis miniatus 
(Qld. Mus. regd. No. I. 5393) from Eib Reef, Townsville, presented by Mr. George 
Coates. Mr. T. C. Marshall remarks that this species is not uncommon at Gladstone, 
where it is brought in from the reefs by fishing boats. This specimen agrees better 
with the nominal species named G. formosanus by Tanaka (loc, cit.), from Formosa, 
than with true miniatus Bomiaterre, ex Forskal. 
Turning up ForskaFs non-binomial description, ho-wever, we find (Descr. Anim. 
1775, pp. xi and 41) several remarks, apart from coloration, in his account of the Red 
Sea type, which do not agree with the Queensland fish : 
“ Vertici ante oculos litera V. inscripta .... Sp. ani secunda, apice tertiae 
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aequalis ; sed validior et longior.” Forskal gives the fin-formula asD. A . A etc., 
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or, as we should VTite nowadays, D. ix/15 ; A. iii/10. 
The Rib Reef specimen has the unusual number of ten dorsal spines and sixteen 
rays and A. iii/9, last divided. 
Cephalopholis maculatuSy Seale and Bean (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxiii, Nov. 21, 
1907, p. 235, fig. 5.) from the Philippines is more like the Queensland form but that 
specific name was anticipated l\y Perea maculata Forster, 1844, in Lichtenstein’s 
edition of his Descr. Anim. p. 220, which some authors consider is also C. miniatus. 
However, Forster’s name is preoccupied by Perea maculata Bloch, 1792. 
Under these circumstances, I am using the subspecific nam.Q formosanus Tanaka 
for the brown-spotted Queensland species, to distinguish it from the blue-spotted type. 
New record for Australia. 
