THE y-MOOTH-RIBBED WEDGE-CORAL. 
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Animal. Undeecribed. 
Locality. 
The coaets of Cornwall and Galway : deep water. 
I am sorry that I can give no information about this 
species additional to what is already known, viz., that it 
exists in a living state on our coasts, and that the skeleton 
is preserved in cabinets. That in the British Museum is 
the only one that I have seen. As long as naturalists con- 
tent themselves with merely preserving the skeletons of the 
animals they meet with, but little progress can be made in 
a knowledge of their history.* 
The present species is said to have been dredged alive 
off Scilly, by Mr. MacAndrew, after whom it has been 
named, and ofi* Arran, on the west coast of Ireland, by Mr. 
Barlee. The generic name is from a wedge, and 
Tpo')(p<i, a top, in allusion to the form of the corallum. 
S. milletianus, with which this has been confounded, is 
a fossil of the miocene period, with a thicker point, and 
a more elliptical calice. 
intermedins {foss.). 
Macandrewanus. 
[Boemeri (ybs5.).] 
* M. Milne Edwards has fallen (Hist. Corall. ii. 70) into the strange 
inadvertence of supposing that the figure given by Johnston (Br. Zooph. 
Ed. 2, pi. XXXV. fig. 7), of the living animal, belongs to this species ; 
though the text distinctly says it is a Carynphytlia Smithii. The figure is 
poor enough, it is true. 
