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characterized as a ‘‘ mistake’’ the statement made by Mr. Broderip, that 
‘< the hard parts of this indigenous species do not appear to have been 
any where described;”’ remarking that he (Dr. Fleming) had himself. 
‘* published (in the second volume of the Wernerian Society’s Memoirs, ) 
a description of the same species, fourteen years previous to 1828”? the 
date of Mr. Broderip’s Note. To this observation Mr. Broderip has replied, 
in the periodical in which it was made by Dr. Fleming, and has exone- 
rated himself from the charge by referring to the memoirs of the Wernerian 
Society, where he finds the Caryophylhia observed by Dr. Fleming de- 
scribed as the Car. Cyathus, Lam. ; under which name, with some variation 
in the orthography, it is again given in Dr. Fleming’s “ British Animals.” 
The Car. Smithii having been shewn by Mr. Broderip, in his original 
note on the subject, to be specifically different from the Car. Cyathus, 
Lam., (Madrepora Cyathus, Ellis and Sol.,) it follows that a ‘‘ mistake’ 
rests with Dr. Fleming, who, if he has (as he states) described ‘‘ the same 
“* species’? with Mr. Broderip, has committed an error by referring 
it to a species from which it is essentially distinct; and, if he has really 
described the Mad. Cyathus (as he twice affirms that he has,) has not 
atany time “ published a description of the same species’’ as that charac- 
terized by Mr. Broderip. 
With Dr. Fleming it remains to explain which of these mistakes has 
been committed by him: if the Car. Smithii has been described by him 
under the name of Car. Cyathus, we yet know of but one indigenous 
species of the genus; if, on the contrary, he is right in regarding 
his discovery as the Car. Cyathus, there are then two species, instead of 
one, to be included in the British Fauna. 
Notice on the Rev. L. Guitpina’s description of Ancylus. By the 
Rev. M. G. BERKELEY. 
At page 535 of the third Volume of the Zoological Journal, is a de- 
scription of the animals of two new species of Ancylus from St. Vincent’s. 
Mr. Guilding remarks in a note: ‘‘ Genus Patelladis analogum, at forté 
“* Lymneadis affine.’’ The true Ancylus is undoubtedly one of the Lym- 
neadea and nearly allied to Physa; but there are some points in the descrip- 
