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opposes a sharply-serrated edge to the less strongly toothed posterior border of 

 the short dactyhis— the parts being cheliform rather than subcheliform. 



The body and appendages are coated with very short distant bristles which 

 do not conceal the surface : there are some longer and thicker bristles along the 

 edges of the chelipeds, and a very few scattered hairs along the edges of the legs. 



The carapace is about 13 millim. long, and about 9 millim. in greatest 

 breadth, in a young female. 



•'S74-'2S7G , rOfi Travancore coast, 430 fathoms. ),, ,. . ,, 



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Paeomolopsis, Wood-Mason. 



Paromolop^i^, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March 1891, p. 268 : Alcock, Investigator Deep Sea 

 Brachyura, p. 11, and J. A. S. B., LXVIII., pt. 3, 1899, p. 160. 



Differs from Homola in the following characters : — 



The carapace, which is urn-shaped, is depressed, its side- walls being far from 

 vertical and being overhung by the sharply-defined lateral borders. The hepatic 

 region is elongate and advanced, so that the hepatic spine is on a level with the 

 spines of the anterior border of the carapace and helps to form a very distinct 

 " orbit." 



Distribidion : Seas of India from 300 to 600 fathoms. 



Paromolopsis Boasi, "Wood-Mason. Plate V., fig. 23. 



Paromolofnis Boasi, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. N.at. Hist., March 1891, p. 268 and fig. 5 : Alcock, U. cit. 



Every part of the body and appendages, except the antennal flagella, 

 covered with a short close downy tomentum. 



Carapace ending in a short triangular rostrum with an upturned tip ; its 

 greatest breadth, which is across the middle of the branchial regions, is equal 

 to its length without the rostrum : the lateral border is well-defined throughout, 

 is carinated, is co-extensive with the length of the carapace, and ends in a large 

 triangular hepatic spine the tip of which is on a level with the tips of the spines 

 of the anterior border : these are four in numl3er, one on either side of the 

 rostrum and one at either outer orbital angle. 



There are two small antennal spines, there are some definitely-placed nodular 

 swellings on the well defined gastric region, and the surface of the denuded 

 carapace is granular, but there are no spines other than those mentioned. 



The swollen terminal joint of the eyestalk is rather longer than the slender 

 basal joint : eyes of good size, well pigmented, hemispherical, retractile into a 

 very decided hollow in the front wall of the hepatic region. 



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