6 Major A. Alcock and Capt. A. R.. S. Anderson on 



The gastric region is well delimited and the linea anomu- 

 rica 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 legs are slender and subcylindrical, the second and 

 third pair (which are slightly longer than the first) are at 

 least three times the length of the carapace. In the first 

 three 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 propo- 

 dite, 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 opposes a 

 sharply serrated edge to the less strongly toothed posterior 

 border of the short dactylus, 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. 



Three young females from off the Travancore coast, 

 430 fathoms. 



The carapace of these is about 13 millim. long and about 

 9 millim. in greatest breadth. 



This species is most closely related to Homola Cuvieri, 

 Risso, and belongs therefore to the late Professor Wood- 

 Mason's genus Paromola. 



Hypsopheys, Wood-Mason. 

 Hypsophrys longipes, sp. n. 



Rostrum deeply bifid. Linea anomurica distinct. 



Four large spines on the anterior border of the carapace, 

 namely, two close together at the base of the rostrum, one at 

 either orbital angle. 



