bitid tooth, with a small spine or tooth on either side of its base. 

 The last pair of legs reach to the end [of the carpus, i.e-, fifth 

 jointj •'■' of the preceding pair." 



The species allotted to this subgenus are H. barbata (Fabricius), 

 U- vigil, A. Milne-Edwards; H- orienfalis, Henderson; and FL 

 andaiuanica, Alcock ; but the last is regarded as possibly a 

 synonym of Henderson's species, and probably only a variety ci 

 H. barbata- 



HoMOLA BARBATA (Fabricius). 



^7^)Z- Cancer barbatus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol- 2, p. 460, No- 



76. 

 1796. Cancer barbatus, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, vol. 2. pt. 



6, p. 16^, pi. 42, fig. 3. 

 18 1 5. Homola spinifrous. Leach, Trans- Linn. Soc. London, vol. 



II, p. 324. 

 1837. Homola spinifrons, Milne-Edwards, Hist- Nat. Crust., vol. 



2, p 183, pi. 22, tig. 1-4, and in the undated R^gne 



Animal (Ed. Fortin, Masson et Cie), pi. 39, fig. 2. 

 1847- Homola barbala, White, Crustacea in British Museupi, p. 



,55- 

 1863. homola spinifrons, Heller, Crust- des siidlichen Europa, p. 



149, pi. 4, figs.* 12, 13. 

 1884. Homola barbata, S- L Smith, Fishery Report for 1882, p. 



351 (7). 

 1888. Homola barbaUu Henderson, Challenger Anomura, 



Reports, vol. 27, p. 18. 



1899. Homola barbata, Alcock, Journ- Asiatic Soc- Bengal, vol. 



68, pt. 2, p. 156. 



1900. Homola barbata, Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, Crust- 



Decap. Travailleur et Talisman, p. 10. 



1901. Ilomola barbata, Alcock, Indian Decapod Crustacea, fasc. 



I, p. 79. 

 Many more references are given in Alcock's last-mentioned 

 work, including, doubtfully, H- spinipes, Guilding, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, vol. 14. p. 334. 1825. In t8t8 Lamarck assigned the species 

 as named by Leach to Dorippc- White, probably following 

 Desmarest, suggests that it may be a representative of 

 Rafinesque's genus Thelxiopc. I he specific name given by 

 Fabricius was by many authors ignored in favour of Lcach's' 

 spinifrous. H. Milne-Edwards, Heller. Henderson. A. Milne- 

 Edward-' and Bouvier, agree in assigning the name barbatus to 

 Her])st, thouirh PTerbst himself gives the reference for it to 

 Fabricius. White refers both to Fabricius and Herbst. but in- 

 verts the ord er. Alcock puts the whole matter rightly, except 



* A comparison of this quotation from the Catalo^e of iqor with the corre- 

 sponding passage in the Journ. Asiat. Soc, 1899, shows that the words in brackets 

 were accidentally omitted. 



