374 
Mr. C. 0. 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. 
Echinopora rosularia , Lam. 
1816. Echinopora rosularia , Lam. Hist, des Aiiim. sans Vertebr. 6d. 2, 
t. ii. p. 397. 
Lagoon, Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 
[To be continued.] 
XLIV. — Descriptions of new Species of Pedaria, with Obser- 
vations on allied Scarabaeidas. By Charles O. Water- 
house, 
Pedaria tuberculigera , sp. n. 
Elongato-oblonga, mgro-fusca, parum nitida, clypeo leviter emar- 
ginato ; thorace confertim sat fortiter punctato, antice tumiditate 
ovali sat elevata parcius subtiliter punctulata nitida instruct o ; 
elytris thorace paullo latioribus, convexis, ad apicem arcuatim 
angustatis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis creberrime 
fortiter punctatis. 
Long. 9 millim. 
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- 
