160 A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. [No. 3, 



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 meras 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 poster- 

 ior 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 scat- 

 tered 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 miilim. 

 in greatest breadth. 



Paromolopsis, Wood-Mason. 



Paromolopsis hoasi, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 1891, p. 268. 

 Paromolopsis, Alcock, Investigator Deep-Sea Brachyura, p. 11. 



Resembles Homola but differs in the following important part- 

 iculars : — 



The carapace is " more brachyurous : " it is urn-shaped and de- 

 pressed, its sides 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, and helps to form a very decided false-orbit. The 

 buccal cavern is scarcely broader in front than behind. 



In other respects it agrees with Homola and more particularly with 

 the subgenus Homolax. 



The branchial formula is the same as that of Homola. 



24. Paromolopsis boasi, Wood-Mason. 



Paromolopsis hoasi, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March 1891, p. 268 and 

 fig. 5 : Alcock, Investigator Deep-Sea Brachyura, p. 11. 



Every exposed surface of the body and appendages, excepting only 

 the flagella of the autenuaB, is covered with an even, velvet-like, 

 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. Unlike the species 



