408 Zoological Society. 
late visit to this country, they stated that it was quite unknown to 
them, and most nearly allied to an Australasian species. It belongs 
to the genus Flabel/um, established by the late M. Lesson in his 
‘ Illustrations of Zoology’ in 1831 for a coral from the Japanese Seas. 
And more lately (in 1841) Dr. A. Philippi established a genus under 
the name of PAyllodes for some fossil allies. Dana, in his work on 
Zoophytes in 1846, has apphed the name of Huphyllia to this genus. 
Quoy and Gaimard referred one of the species to the genus Turdi- 
nolia. 
The only specimen of the coral found by Mr. MacAndrew is un- 
fortunately in an imperfect state, having been broken by the dredge, 
and I have some doubts if it absolutely belongs to the genus Fla- 
bellum, as it appears rather to form a more or less circular expanded 
disk, than a compressed wedge-shaped body. But Messrs. Milne- 
Edwards and Haime appeared to have no doubt of its belonging to 
that genus when it was shown to them, and I have therefore adopted 
their opinion until more perfect specimens are found to verify or cor- 
rect our knowledge. It may be described as follows :— 
FLABELLUM MacAnpDREWwI. 
Coral expanded, subcircular?; outline irregular, torn, with acute 
marginal processes ; outer surface smooth, polished, as if varnished ; 
septa thin, far apart, very finely crenulated on the edge in three 
series ; the primary plates large, the secondary nearly as large, but 
much more narrow near the centre; the tertiary plates small, very 
narrow. 
Hab. North Sea. 
The single imperfect specimen here described was found about 
twenty-five miles from East Shetland, in ninety fathoms water. 
Mr. MacAndrew has kindly presented the specimen to the British 
Museum collection. 
M. Milne-Edwards and M. Haime, m their monograph of the genus 
Flabellum, published in the ‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles,’ ix. 
p. 256 (in 1848), describe forty-three species, and divide them into 
three sections, thus :— 
a. Coral becoming free by the progress of age. 
* Coral becoming free by the cessation of the adherence of the 
pedicel—Flabellines pédicellés. 
** Coral becoming free by the rupture of its base—F’. tronquées. 
6. Coral always fixed by its enlarged base—F. fixées. 
The last section is very distinct from the two former, and might 
almost form a separate genus, for which I should be inclined to retain 
Dana’s name of Huphyllia. 
The other two sections are separated from one another by very 
slight characters, which I believe are not even sufficient to separate 
the specimens of the same species, for some specimens from the same 
localities retain their narrow base, while in others this part is more or 
less truncated. 
Indeed from the numerous specimens of this genus which I have 
