374 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse on 



Orbicella, sp. 



A small incrusting specimen on mass of coral with Madre- 

 pore and other species of corals. 

 Tizard Bank, 7 fath. 



Genus Echinopora, Lam. 



EcMnopora rosularia^ Lam. 



1816. Echinopora rosularia, Lam. Hist, des Anim. s^ans Vertebr. 6d. 2, 

 t. ii, p. 397. 



Lagoon, Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 



[To be coutinued.] 



XLIV. — Descriptions of new Species of Pedaria, loith Ohser- 

 vatiuns on allied Scarabgeidge. By Charles O. Water- 

 house, 



Pedaria tuherculigera, sp. n. 



Elongato-oblonga, nigro-fusca, pariim nitida, clypeo leviter emar- 

 ginato ; thorace confertim sat fortiter punctato, antice tumiditate 

 ovali sat elevata parcius subtiliter punctulata nitida instructo ; 

 elytris thorace paullo latioribus, convexis, ad apicem arcuatim 

 angustatis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis creberrime 

 fortiter punctatis. 



Long. 9 milhm. 



Hab. 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 few punc- 

 tures ; the anterior margin is distinctly but not very deeply 

 emarginate, the angles of the emargination rounded ; and 

 between this emargination and the posterior 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 punctured ; the punctures at the sides 

 are moderately large, separated from each other by about one 

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

 punctures become a little smaller and the intervals propor- 

 tionately greater ; halfway towards the side about twenty- 



