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Palate well delimited from the epistome : efferent branchial channels well 

 defined by low ridges. 



Chelipeds not longer, and but little more massive, than the first two pair of 

 ambulatory legs. None of the legs verrucose or dilated. The last pair of legs 

 are slender, and are much longer than the penultimate pair and little shorter 

 than any of the others. 



The sternal grooves of the female end in a pair of prominent juxtaposed 

 divergent tubercles placed at the level of the base of the chelipeds. 



No epipodite on the chelipeds. 



Distrihdiou : Seychelles, Laccadives, Ceylon. 



The peculiar form and breadth of the front is due to the prominence of the supra-orbital 

 eave and especially of the supra-orbital tooth, which have fused with the front. 



I am still in doubt on the question of separating Lasiodromia { = Eomalodromia) from 



Pseiiidodromia. 



The name Eomalodromia is so extremely similar in sound to Homolodromia (A. M. Edw., 1880), 

 that it would be very inconvenient to retain it. I therefore propose a new name Lasiodromia in 

 allusion to the long shaggy fringe of the anterior border of the carapace. 



Lasiodromia Goppingeri (Miers). Plate III., figs. 15, 15a. 



Eomalodromia Coppingeri, Miers, Zool. H. M. S. Alert, p. .55i, pi. L., fig. B. 



Pseudodromia quadricornU (an Eomalodromia Coppingeri ?) Alcock, J. A. S. B., LXVIII., pt. 2, 1899, p. 149. 



Body and appendages tomentose, with numerous long hairs: a hue of 

 peculiarly long silky hairs forms a fringe or false anterior border to the carapace 

 behind the deflexed front. 



Front deflexed, dorsally grooved in the middle line, cut into two broad 

 teeth, each of which is fused at base with a broad and peculiarly prominent 

 supra-orbital tooth ; so that the front appears to consist of two widely-separated 

 lobes each of which is bifid. 



Carapace in the adult longer than broad, slightly convex from side to side, 

 almost flat fore and aft behind the line of long hairs that marks the frontal 

 declivity : its surface, when denuded, is quite smooth : only the branchial or 

 cervical groove and the cardiac region are distinctly marked. 



Lateral borders of carapace entire, except that there may be a tiny denticle 

 behind the branchial groove, slightly convergent posteriorly. 



Outer orbital angle dentiform. Sub-orbital lobe dentiform, deflexed. 

 Chelipeds and legs comparatively slender, the chehpeds shorter and hardly 

 stouter than the legs. Two acute tubercles on the outer surface of the wrist. 



Fourth (last) pair of legs little slenderer and about as long as either of the 

 first two pair, ending in a slender claw-Hke dactylus to which a spinule at the 

 end of the propodite is opposed to form an almost perfect chela. 



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