374 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse on 



OrhiceUa, sp. 



A small incrusting specimen on mass of coral with Madre- 

 pore and other species of corals. 

 Tizard Bank, 7 fath. 



Genus ECHINOPORA, Lam. 



Echhiopora rosularia, Lam. 



181 G. EcJmiopora rosidaria, Lam. Hist, des Anim. sans Vertebr. ^d. 2, 

 t. ii. p. 397. 



Lagoon, Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 



[To be coutiuued.] 



XLIV. — Descriptions of neio Species of Pedaria, v:ith Obser- 

 vations on allied Scarabaiidai. By Chakles O. Watek- 

 HOUSE. 



Pedaria tiibercxdigera^ sp. ii. 



Eloiigato-obloiiga, ingro-fiisca, parum iiitida, clypeo levitcr cinar- 

 giiiato ; thorace cout'crtim sat fortiter puuctato, antice tumiditate 

 ovali sat elevata parcius subtiliter punctulata uitida instructo ; 

 clytris thorace paullo latioribus, convexis, ad apicem arcuatim 

 angustatis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis creberrime 

 fortiter punctatis. 



Long. 9 milhm. 



Hah. Senegambia [Bocande). 



Dark smoky brown, with a slight purple-bronze shade. 

 The head is evenly and closely punctured, the punctures 

 small but very distinct, usually separated from each other by 

 a diameter of a puncture; the clypeus has a very i\t\\ punc- 

 tures ; the anterior margin is distinctly but not very deeply 

 emarginate, the angles of the emargination rounded ; and 

 between this emargination and the jiosterior angle of the head 

 there is a distinct angulation. The thorax is transverse, 

 parallel-sided, with a slight sinuosity before the anterior 

 angles, convex, closely |)unctured ; the jninctures at the sides 

 are moderately large, separated from each other by about one 

 quarter the diameter of a puncture ; but towards the disk the 

 ])unctures become a little smaller and the intervals propor- 

 tionately greater ; halfway towards the side about twenty- 



