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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 l6, 1823. 



Among 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. 



HoMOLA. Leach Zool. Misc. 



1. Homola spinipes. ? . 



H. rubescens, testa tot4 femoribusque spinosis hirsutis, pedibus 

 anticis majoribus spinosissimis : digitis nigris. 



Habitat in profundis maris. Caribei, semel obvia. Homold spini- 

 fronte paulo major. 



Desc. Spina, pedum anticorum aciculares, testae validae : 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- 

 ject; 



