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Crampton was engaged in the effort of slaying a dead horse ; 
and he would like to point out that Dr. Crampton’s inter- 
pretation, arising from a comparison of the parts in Machilis 
with those of Crustacea, agrees entirely with the interpreta- 
tion given by Hansen in 1893. That fact in itself suggested 
to him that Dr. Crampton had no first-hand knowledge of 
Hansen’s paper, and was unaware of all the evidence in 
support of the particular view which he characterises as “a 
most glaring inaccuracy.’’ He had no wish to prejudge the 
question at issue, and should await with the greatest interest 
the further papers, illustrated by drawings, in which Dr. 
Crampton has undertaken to give details, and prove the 
truth of his statements; it was certainly a strong point in 
favour of his view, that the presence of a neuromere, cor- 
responding to a superlingual segment, in the embryo of 
“Anurida, as shown in one of Folsom’s figures, is very much 
questioned by other embryologists, and has not yet been 
confirmed. 
Mr. S. Epwarps brought for exhibition two larvae of 
Ino globulariae. 
Mr. G. Tausot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Jorcky, showed some 
examples of new and little known Lepidoptera collected on 
the Island of Mefor by Messrs. C. F. and J. Platt; also some 
specimens from near Berne in Switzerland and from the 
Marianne Islands. 
Mr. J. E. Metxor, M.A., Assistant Govt. Entomologist to 
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan—a visitor—exhibited and read a 
note on certain Sudan Solitary Wasps. 
“ Eumenes macxillosa seemed to be the commonest in 
Khartoum during the period of my observations—April to 
July 1920—whereas the black and yellow waisted Sphegid, 
Sceliphron spirifex, was more frequently seen at Shambat, two 
and a half miles north of Khartoum and opposite Omdurman. 
** FE. maxillosa builds its nest on walls in or outside the house, 
on various articles of furniture, and I once found a round nest 
about the size of a tennis ball round a branch of a Poinciana, 
from which emerged wasps seemingly identical with those 
issuing from nests found on flat surfaces. 
“This wasp and a Eumenid, possibly £. lepelletieri Sauss., 
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