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Eyes somewhat reuiform : the joint on whicli tliey are borne is shorter 

 than the slender basal joint. 



Chelipeds slender, but distinctly stouter than the legs, more hairy than the 

 carapace, especially along the edges of the joints. Upper and lower borders 

 of arm spiny ; wi'ist with rows of spines on the outer surface and a spine or 

 two at the inner angle ; lower border of hand dentate, upper border of hand 

 denticulate, cutting edges of fingers sharp, entire. 



Legs compressed, their edges plumed with short bristles, with long bristles 

 interspersed. The second and third pair, which are a dactyl-length longer than 



the first, are not quite 2- times the length of the carapace : in all three pairs 

 both edges of the merus are armed with stout spines — at least in the distal half, 

 and the posterior border of the propodite and dactylus with compressed articu- 

 lated spines which are distant and acicular on the propodite, but stout very 

 regular and close-set on the dactylus. 



The subcheliform fourth pair of legs reach very slightly beyond the end of 

 the carpus of the preceding pair : the merus has 3 or 4 spines on the lower 

 border and a terminal spine on the upper border, the claw-like dactylus closes 

 against a bunch of spines on the near end of the propodite. 



In a female the carapace is about 27 millim. long, and about 21 miUim. wide. 



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Andaman Sea 13° 16' 30' N. 93' 8' E. 79 fathoms. " Investigator." 



Andaman Sea 13M 7' N. 93° 7' E. 90 fathoms. "Investigator." 



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Types of the species 



This species closely resembles the Atlantic and Mediterranean H. harhata, 

 from which indeed it differs only m the following particulars : — 



The eyes are more reniform. The second spine of the lateral border of the 

 carapace is just behind the hepatic region, instead of being on that region. 

 There are spines on the posterior border of the meropodites of all four pairs of 

 walking legs. 



Subijenus Homolax. 

 Eomola {Homolax) megalops Alcock. Plate. IV., fig. 21. 



Homola megixlops, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., May 1894, p. 408 : Illustrationa of the Zool. of the Investi- 

 gator, Crust., pi. xiv., figs. 1, la: Investigator Deep Sea Brachyura, p. 9 : J. A. S. B., LXVIII., pt. 2, 1899, p. 158, 



Carapace urn-shaped, its greatest breadth is across the middle of the 

 branchial region ; its sides, and still more the spinulate lateral borders of its 

 dorsum, are elegantly curved ; the hairs that cover it are so inconspicuous as to 

 be recognizable only with a lens. 



