140 Rev. T. Ilincks'a Contributions towards a 



Scutellum red-brown, thickly and finely punctured, 

 pubescent. 



Elytra entirely red-brown, immaculate, once and a third 

 wider than prothorax, narrowing slightly towards apex, 

 rugose, with the longitudinal raised lines on the disk well 

 defined at the base, becoming fainter towards the apex ; the 

 apices rounded externally. 



Underside and hrjs, including femora, tibife, and tarsi, 

 entirely and densely clothed with fine, silky, bright golden 

 pubescence ; finely and thickly punctured, the tibise more 

 coarsely so. 



Length 39, breadth 11 millim. 



Hah. Siam {Coll. Mouhot). 



This beautiful species difi'ers from Iletica testacea, its 

 nearest ally, in the peculiar sculpture of the head, its entirely 

 uniform chestnut colour, and the golden pubescence of its 

 under surface. 



XXVI. — Contrihutions toioards a General History of the 

 Marine Polyzoa^ 1880-91. — Appendix. By the Rev. 

 Thomas Hincks, B.A., F.R.S. 



[Concluded from vol. xi. p. 182.'] 



' Annals,' May 1884 (p. 361) *. 



Porella malleolus, sp. n. 



Mr. Waters records this species as occurring in New South 

 Wales ('Annals' for July 1889, p. 16). He regards it as a 

 variety of Smittia Landshorovii, a view which I confess I am 

 not prepared to accept. 



Ibid. (p. 363). 



" POLYZOA FROM VICTORIA AND WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA." 



Pedicellinopsis, gen. nov. 



This genus was constituted for a ramified Pedicelline species 

 remarkable for its distinctive habit, its specialized muscular 



* The paging to the close of the " Appendix " is that of the * Annals,' 

 and not of the separate copies. 



