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XVII. An Account of some rare West Indian Crustacea. By the 
Rev. Lansdown Guilding, B.A. F.L.S. — 
Read December 16, 1823. 
Amoxc the numerous crustaceous animals which inhabit the 
Caribean sea, none perhaps are more worthy of attention than 
the species which are the subjects of this paper. Several of them 
are found in the deepest water, and have not hitherto been 
noticed. 
CRUSTACEA: 
|. DECAPODA. 
BRACHYURA. 
Howora. Leach Zool. Misc. 
* 1. Homola spinipes. 9. 
H. rubescens, testà totà femoribusque spinosis hirsutis, pedibus 
anticis majoribus spinosissimis : digitis nigris. 
Habitat in profundis maris Caribei, semel obvia. Homold spini- 
fronte paulo major. 
Desc. Spine pedum anticorum aciculares, teste validæ : fe- 
mora postica gracilia, interne quadrispinosa. 
This specimen was taken from the throat of a large fish, and 
had lost the left fore-leg. Leach, who instituted the genus for 
the reception of H. spinifrons, possessed only an imperfect sub- 
3ect ; 
