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Eleven specimens, representing adults and young of both sexes, were lately 

 dredged off the coast of Travanacore at 430 fms., on a bottom which, though 

 muddy, was covered with coral of the genera Garyophyllia, Desmophyllum, Soleno- 

 srniHa, and Lophohelia. According to Dr. A. R. Anderson, the present Natural- 

 ist to the Survey, nearly half a ton of coral was brought up at this haul. 



Family Dromiclce. 



Deomia, Fabr., Edw. 



Sub-genus Sph^rodeomia, nov. 



Carapace globose and pilose : palate with a low and inconspicuous ridge on 

 either side : rostrum subacutely bilobed : the sternal grooves of the female are 

 very short, ending well behind the level of the genital openings : chelipeds and 

 legs as in Dromia rvm])hii. 



Droniia {Sphcerodroinia) Kendalli, (Alcock & Anderson). 



Diwnidia S'e7KJaHt, Alcock & Anderson, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXIII. pt. 2, 1894, p. 175: 111. Zool. Investigator, 

 Crust, pi. xxiv. figs. 1, la. 



Carapace globose, its length and breadth equal, closely covered — like the 

 appendages and the other exposed surfaces of the body — with dense short 

 yellomsh fur, many of the hairs being club-shaped; its surface smooth, except 

 for a few vesiculous granules on the pterygostomian regions and on the posterior 

 part of the side-wall. Cardiac region clearly defined ; so also is the cervical 

 groove, especially in the part of its course that traverses the side-walls of the 

 carapace. 



The front consists of two broadly triangular teeth and, on each side, 

 breaks into the roof of the orbit so as to imperfectly divide that cavity into two 

 fossge — one corresponding with the eyestalk the other with the eye. There is no 

 median tooth above the junction with the epistome. 



The lateral borders of the carapace are arched, and are entire except for a 

 few granules visible only vrith a lens ; the anterior half of each border is carinate. 

 Posterior border concave. 



The common antennular-orbital cavities are deep, affording complete con- 

 cealment to the retracted parts : the tooth at the outer lower orbital angle is 

 broadly and bluntly triangular and forms more than a third of the floor of each 

 cavity. Eyes well formed, but decidedly deficient in pigment. Antennal 

 fiagella long. 



The external maxillipeds, though broadly operculiform, do not meet against 

 the raised epistomial margin, but leave there a wide gap. 



Chelipeds, in the female, about 1| times the length of the carapace; when 



