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In both sexes the palms are covered with unequal 

 granules, the largest of which are arranged in irregular 

 rows. Fingers longer in male than in female, colour black, 

 not reaching quite to either end. In the old male the 

 fingers gape narrowly in the basal half; in the gape the 

 dactyl has a truncate tooth, and nearer the palm the 

 immovable finger has a low, rounded lobe. 



On the three following legs, besides the upper and lower 

 rows of spines, there are other spines and sharp spinules or 

 tubercles. The carpus and propodus are finely roughened 

 with small, slender, horny spines, moving in sockets. The 

 dactylus is armed with six rows of horny spines, two rows 

 above reaching to the dark-coloured tip, a short row at the 

 proximal end on the lower margin and on the inner and 

 outer faces. 



The merus of the last pair of legs has three rows of 

 spines and some scattered spinules, the only superior spine 

 is at the distal end. The carpus and propodus are 

 roughened as in the preceding legs, and the propodus has 

 besides two rows of spines between which fits the row of 

 spines on the dactylus. 



The abdomen of the male is about two-thirds as wide as 

 that of the female. The first, second, third, fourth and 

 sixth segments each bear a median spine or tubercle ; the 

 third, fourth and sixth segments bear also a spine on each 

 side. In the female the terminal segment is invaginated 

 in the penultimate, a small lobe on each side of the latter 

 being produced, but not attached, alongside the proximal 

 end of the terminal segment. 



Ho M OLA ORIENT ALIS, Henderson. 

 (Plate xxxvii.) 



Homola oriental-is, Henderson, Challenger Rept., Zool.. 

 xxvii., 1888, p. 19, pi. ii., figs. 1, la. Whitelegge, 

 Mem. Austral. Mus., iv., 1900, p. 163. Doflein, 

 Abhand. k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., ii. Cl., xxi., iii. 

 Abth., 1902, p. 651, pi. iv., figs. 5 and 6. 



Homola barbata orientalis, Doflein, Brachyura Valdivia, 

 vi., 1904, p. 14, pi. v., figs. 4 and 5. 



Off Gabo Island, Victoria, 80 fathoms; E.4774; one 

 young female. 



