470 Messrs. S. O. Kidley and A. Dendy on 



of trunk-appendages become the first and second pairs of 

 antennge, really seem to him to be " precisely the same thing " 

 as the upward movement of the first trunk-appendages, con- 

 verted into the second pair of antennae, such as is rendered 

 probable by the origin of the nerves upon the suboesophageal 

 ganglion and their change of position in the higher Crus- 

 tacea ? And it is upon such a fantastic argument as this that 

 Bay Lankester ventures to bring against me the calumnious 

 charge : — " Prof. Claus further has given expression to the 

 remarkable conception that he is justified in ignoring the work 

 of other zoologists, and treating their results as his own, pro- 

 vided that he does so not more than three years after they 

 have published those results ; " and in connexion therewith he 

 feels himself justified in adopting a magisterial tone, and 

 finally in posing as a moralizing judge, — E,ay Lankester, who 

 himself in so many controversies has had to submit to be set 

 right, and has just furnished so fine an example of his pro- 

 ficiency in the noble art of sophistical falsification ! 



It only remains for me, with reference to my previous 

 article (July 1886, p. bS), to point out that Eay Lankester 

 has not given the revocation called for in its concluding 

 passage, and therefore has himself pronounced judgment — a 

 judgment which is strengthened and confirmed by the method 

 adopted in his " Rejoinder." 



XLIV. — Preliminary Rejport on the Monaoconida collected, hy 

 ILM.S. 'Challenger: By Stuart O. Ridley, M.A., 

 F.L.S., of the British Museum, and Arthur Dendy, B.Sc, 

 Associate of the Owens College, Manchester. 



[Concluded from p. 351.] 



Part IL 



Family 3. DesmacidonidsB [continued). 



Subfamily ii. Ecttonin^. 



Fibre normally echinated by laterally projecting spicules. 



Genus Myxilla (Schmidt). 

 Skeleton-spicules : — (1) main, acuate, usually spined ; 



