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Dimensions of carapace of a full-grown specimen 41 millim. long, 36 millim. 

 broad. 



6928-6929 _ , . , „ IT-Sl' 40" N. 92° 46' 40" E 



8832 

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8958-8960 



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2580-2585 



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(Types OP THE SPECIES). Andaman Sea, ,o^ «^,^ , , >-" Investigator. 



188-220 fathoms J 



Off Colombo, 142^00 fathoms. " Investigator." 



. Off Madras coast, 13° 51' 12" N. 80' 28' 12" E. 145-250 fathoms. " Investigator." 

 . Andaman Sea, 14° 13' N. 93' 40' E. 370-419 fathoms. " Investigator." 



Subgenus Paromola Wood-Mason. 

 Homola (Paromola) profundorum, Ale. & And. Plate V., fig. 22. 



Homola profundorum, Alcook and Anderson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1899, p. 5 : Aloook, Investigator Deep 

 Sea Brachyura, p. 10, pi. i. fig. 2: J, A. S. B., LXVIII., pt. 2, 1899, p. 159. 



Carapace very decidedly macrurous, deep, ovoid-triangular, broadest abaft 

 tbe middle of the branchial region, tapering to an acutely-spiniform rostrum of 

 which the length is about a third that of the rest of the carapace. Diverging 

 from either side of the base of the rostrum is a spine of similar form and size. 

 The only other elevations on the carapace are a hepatic spine just behind the 

 hollow for the retracted eye, an antennal spine just outside the antennal base, 

 and a blunt denticle near the middle of the ill-defined lateral border. 



The gastric region is well delimited, and the linea anomurica is broad 

 conspicuous and dorsal. 



The stout cylindrical terminal joint of the eye-stalks is longer than the 

 slender basal joint, the eyes are of good size, well pigmented, and hemispherical. 



The chelipeds are slender but are stouter than the legs ; the arm has the 

 outer lower border spinate and, on the upper border, a few spinules and a strong 

 terminal spine ; both the inner and the outer angles of the wrist are armed 

 with a strong spine, the fingers are much shorter than the hand and have the 

 cutting-edge entire. 



The ambulatory legs are slender and subcylindrical, the 2nd and 3rd pair, 

 which are slightly longer than the first, are at least three times the length of 

 the carapace. In the first 3 pair there are a few distant spines and a strong 

 terminal spine on the anterior border of the merus, a few articulating spinules 

 at the far end of the posterior border of the propodite, and a comb of articulating 

 spines along the posterior border of the dactylus — the last joint being but half 

 the length of the last but one. The dorsal fourth pair of legs are far slenderer 

 than the others and do not reach the end of the merus of the preceding pair : 

 their propodite is triangular, owing to the expansion of its posterior border, and 



