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The lateral borders of the carapace, which run below the orbit to the angles 

 of the buccal cavern, and the suborbital lobes are serrulate but are not cut into 

 teeth, though there may be a granular tubercle in front of the cervical groove 

 and another behind it. 



The chelipeds and legs are crisply and closely granular, the chehpeds and 

 first two pairs of legs being also nodular. In the wrist the inner, and even more 

 the outer, angle are dentiform. 



Last two pairs of legs slender, hardly half the length of the first two pairs, 

 ending in claw-like dactyli, but not cheliform : the last pair are hardly longer 

 than the peniiltimate pair. 



The abdominal terga are granular and more or less sculptured. 



The carapace of the largest specimen is 7 millim. long and 8 millim. broad. 

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(Types of the species). Karachi. "Investigator." 



Cryptodromia Gilesii, Alcock. Plate III., fig. 13. 



Drcmla (Cryptodromia) Gilesii, Aloock, Joarn. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, LXVIII., pt. 2, 1899, p. 146. 



No tomentum : only a few hairs on some of the leg-joints. 



Carapace pentagonal, convex, its greatest length about equal to its greatest 

 breadth, the greater part of its surface covered with vesiculous granules : not 

 only are all the regions very distinct, but they are also areolated — the areolae 

 however not being so individually convex as they are in D. ehalioides. 



Front cut into 3 triangular teeth, of which the middle one is the smallest 

 and is on a lower plane and obliquely deflexed. 



Upper orbital border very oblique : a hardly noticeable angulation — not a 

 distinct tooth — mai'ks the true inner supra-orbital angle. Outer orbital angle 

 not pronounced. Suborbital lobe dentiform but inconspicuous. 



Antero-lateral borders of the carapace cut into 5 small granular lobules or 

 tubercles, of which only 2 belong to the true antero-lateral border, the other 3 

 lieing on the subhepatic border and at the outer angle of the buccal cavern. A 

 granular tubercle on the postero-lateral border, just behind the cervical groove. 



Legs and chelipeds crisply granular, the chelipeds and first 3 pair of legs 

 being also nodular : the nodules on the carpal joints being prominent and acute. 



Last 2 pair of legs very slender, hardly half the length of the first 2 pair, 

 ending in hook-like dactyli, not cheliform. 



All the abdominal terga are symmetrically sculptured and granular. 



The carapace of an egg-laden female is 8 millim. long and 8^ millim. broad. 



This species which is closely related to D. sculpta Haswell, is easily distin- 



