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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 vv^hich 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 Canjophyllia observed by Dr. Flemino- de- 

 scribed as the Car. Cyathus, Lara. ; 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., fMadrepora 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 

 at any 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 hc\sheen 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. 



J^otice on the Rev. L. Guilding'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 oi Ancylus from St. Vincent's. 

 Mr. Guilding remarks in a note : " Genus Patelladis analogum, at fortd 

 " Lymnaeadis affine." The true Ancylus is undoubtedly one of the Lym- 

 neeadee and nearly allied to Physa; but there are some points in the descrip- 



