bifid toothy with a small spine or tooth on either side of its base. 

 The last pair of legs reach to the end [of the carpus^ i.e-, fifth 

 joint] '•= of the preceding pair." 



The species allotted to this subgenus are H. harhata (Fabricius), 

 H- vigil, A. Milne-Edwards; H- orietifalis, Henderson; and FI. 

 andamanica, Alcock; but the last is regarded as possibly a 

 synonym of Henderson's species, and probably only a variety cl 

 H. barbata- 



HoMOLA BARBATA (Fabricius). 



1793. Cancer barbatus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol- 2, p. 460, No- 



76. 

 1796. Cancer barbatus, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse^, vol. 2, pt. 



6, p. 166, pi. 42, fig. 3. 

 1815. Homola spitiifrons. Leach, Trans- Linn. Soc. London, vol. 



II, p. 324. 

 1837. Homola spinifrons, Milne-Edwards, Hist- Nat. Crust., vol. 



2, p 183, pi. 22, hg. 1-4, and in the undated Regne 



Animal (Ed. Fortin, Masson et Cie), pi. 39, fig. 2. 

 1847- Homola barbata, White, Crustacea in British Aluseun, p. 



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



149, pi. 4, figs. 12, 13. 

 1884. Homola barbata, S- I- Smith, Fishery Report for 1882, p. 



351 (7)- 

 1888. Homola barbata, Henderson, Challeng^er Anomura, 



Reports, vol. 27, p. 18. 



1899. Homola barbata, Alcock, Journ- Asiatic Soc- Bengal, vol. 



68, pt. 2, p. 156. 



1900. Homola barbata, Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, Crust- 



Decap. Travailleur et Talisman, p. 10. 



1901. Homola barbata, Alcock, Indian Decapod Crustacea, fasc. 



I. p. 79. 

 Manv more references are given in Alcock's last-mentioned 

 work, including, doubtfully. H- spinipes, Guilding, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, vol. 14, p. 334, 1825. In 1818 Lamarck assigned the species 

 as named by Leach to Dorippc- White, probably following 

 Desmarest, suggests that it may be a represenftative of 

 Rafinesque's genus Thelxiope. The specific name given by 

 Fabricius was by many authors ignored in favour of Leach's 

 spinifrons. H- Milne-Edwards, Heller, Henderson, A. Milne- 

 Edward? and Bouvier, agree in assigning the name barbatus to 

 Herbst, though Herbst himself gives the reference for it to 

 Fabricius. White refers both to Fabricius and Herbst, but in- 

 verts the order. Alcock puts the whole matter rightly, except 



* A comparison of this quotation from the Catalogue of iqoi with the corre- 

 sponding passage in the Journ. Asiat. Soc, 1899, shows that the words in brackets 

 were accidentally omi Ued. 



