OF NEW ZEALAND. YF 
Eyes not anterior to the first pair of antenne. Second pair of 
antenne sometimes posterior, but not exterior to the eyes. Abdomen 
narrow, often adpressed to the sternum, without caudal appendages. 
Sub-Tribe I. DromrpeEa. 
Dromiens and Homoliens, M. Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust. i, p. 197, 
(1837). 
Dromidea, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xii, Crust. part i, p. 400, 
(1852). 
Carapace sub-globose, sub-triangular, or sub-quadrate. Eyes placed 
near to one another. The buccal cavity quadrilateral. Anterior legs 
with a well developed hand. The posterior pair of ambulatory legs 
smaller than the preceding, raised above the rest, and placed sub-dorsally 
upon the carapace, terminating in a curved, and more or less prehensile 
claw. 
CRYPTODROMIA. 
Cryptodromia, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. p. 63, (1858). 
Carapace convex, pubescent, scarcely pilose. Palate with a ridge on 
each side. The sternal sulci in the female remote from one another, 
only produced to the segment bearing the second pair of legs, termina- 
ting in tubercles. Legs like those of Dromia, but nodose, 
Species of small size. 
68. Cryptodromia lateralis. 
Dromia lateralis, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 40, (1842). 
Cryptodromia lateralis, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 
p- 226, (1858). | 
Carapace sub-globose; back evenly convex, front rather produced, 
deeply two cut, with a central tubercle beneath; sides rather produced, g i 
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with two large, and one hinder smaller denticulation, sides of the front A ee 
edge concave, with a smallér tubercle over the centre of each eye. is 
Length 7 lines; breadth 64 lines. (G.). 
Auckland (Heller); New Zealand (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Specimens in the British Myseum Collection, which I think belong 
to this species, have the front three lobed, the median lobe deflexed, 
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the lateral lobes triangular. Aitero-lateral margins with two teeth 
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