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i893- Homolidac, Stebbing, History of. Crustacea, p. 137. 



1899. Homolinac, M-Edw- and Bouvier, Crust. Hirondelle et 



Princesse Alice, pp. 9_, 10. 

 1899. iiomohdae, Alcock, Deep-sea Brach) ura Investigator, p- 6. 



1899. Homolidae (restricted), Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



vol- 68, pt. 2, p. 154. 



1900. HonwUnae, M. -Ed wards and Bouvier, Crust. Travailleur et 



Talisman, p. lo- 



190 1. Homolidae (restricted), Alcock, Catal- Indian Decapod 



Crustacea, p. 59. 

 In 1899 the French authors recognised in this family seven 

 genera, Paromola, Paromolopsis, and Hypsophrys, instituted by 

 Wood-Mason; Homologenus and Latreiflopsis, by Henderson; 

 Homota, Leach; and Latreillia, Roux- They remark that the 

 species of Paromola are the primitive forms of the group, and that 

 Latreillia is linked to it by the intravention of Lafrcillopsis. Alcock 

 distinguishes three sub-genera of Hoiuola, namely. HoinoJa, 

 Homolax, and Paromola. This writer also, in the Journ- Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal vol. 68, p. 155, 1899, separates Lafreillopsis and 

 Latreillia from the Homolidae, placing them in a new family 

 Latreillidse, in this respect following the lead of S. I. Smith, who 

 in 1883 distingfuished the Latreillidea from the Homolidea, al- 

 though with Alcock Homolidea is an over-group embracingthe 

 two families, the Latreillidse (or rather Latreilliidse) being distin- 

 guished by very elongate eye-stalks, by having eight pairs of gill 

 plumes, and no epipods on the trunk legs, while in the Homolid?e 

 the eye-stalks are not so elongate, the gill plumes are in thirteen 

 or fourteen pairs, and there are epipods on the chelipeds and often 

 on the two following pairs of legs. 



Gen.: Homola, Leach- . 



1S15. Homola, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 11-, p- 324. 

 1863. Homola, Heller, Crust, des siidlichen Europa, p. 148- 

 1896. Homola, Bouvier, Bulletin Soc- Philomathique de Paris, 



vol. 8, p. 70 (37), etc. 

 1901. Homola, Alcock.. Indian Decapod Crustacea, fasc- i. p- 60. 



The very numerous references to this genus can be traced from 

 tb.ose here given for the family and the typical species. For 

 Homola as a subgenus, Alcock names H. barbata as the type, for 



ijiii) (Lv H. megalops, Alcock, and for Paromola, Wood-Mason, 

 //• cuvieri (Risso). For the sub genus Homola he gives the follow- 

 ing character: — 



Carapace quadrate, its broadest part being in front, across the 

 middle of the gastric region : the lincae aiiomitrieae keep close to 

 ihc Literal borders, and are rather inconspicuous. Rostrum a 



