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but not forming a tooth, a deep cleft on the orbital edge just below the outer orbital angle ; 

 three small blunt knobs on the anterolateral edge behind the outer orbital angle, two broad 

 notches behind these teeth corresponding to the branchial groove (which is present) and 

 probably to the cervical groove (which is absent); the 2nd and 3rd legs with strong, hooked 

 end-joints, armed with a few thorns underneath, the fourth leg short, subchelate, and the 

 fifth leg as long as the third, also subchelate." 



Length: 11 mm. Breadth: 10mm. Colour in spirit: pale yellow. 



One female from Hulule, Male Atoll. 



This species much resembles Droiiiidiopsis australiensis, but may be distinguished by 

 the more distant and more outstanding teeth of the anterolateral edge, which in D. australi- 

 ensis are broader at their base, by the sternal grooves of the female, which meet and end 

 on the segment of the first walking-leg, and by the presence of a spine on the hinder 

 edge of the propodite of the fifth leg. The cheliped has an epipodite. 



Genus Bromides Borradaile, 1903. 

 For a diagnosis of this genus see the paper cited on \i. 576 above. 



4. Dromides hilgendorfi (de Man), 1887. Alcock, v. p. 14.5'. 



Dredged in Suvadiva and South Nilandu Atolls, in 30 and 19 fathoms respectively. 



Genus Cryptodromia Stimps., 18.58. 



5. Cryptodromia hullijera Ale, 1898. Alcock, v. p. 143. 

 Dredged in South Nilandu Atoll in 30 fathoms. 



6. Cryptodromia hirsuta n. sp. (PL XXXIII, fig. 3). 



Diagnosis : " A Cryptodromia with the body broader than long, smooth and hairy, the 

 regions indistinct ; the front prominent and bearing three fairly sharp teeth, of which the 

 middle one is somewhat longer than those at the sides ; the upper rim of the orbit finely 

 beaded and bearing a tooth near its inner end, a tooth at the outer and another at the 

 lower inner orbital angle; one tooth on the anterolateral edge and a low swelling behind 

 this tooth, a small blunt tooth behind the branchial groove', and a strong conical subhepatic 

 tooth ; the carjaopodite and propodite of the cheliped and second two pairs of legs knobbed, 

 but without sharp thorns, and the last two pairs of legs short, subequal, and feebly chelate." 



Length : 7 mm. Breadth : 8 mm. Colour in sjjirit : dull yellow, legs often orange. 



The sternal grooves of the female end widely apart on the line between the stemites 

 of the first and second walking-legs. There is no epipodite on the cheliped. 



Taken on the reef in Minikoi and Male Atolls. 



1 For the principle on which references are given in this Indian Dromiacea here referred to appeared in Journ. As. 

 series of papers see above, Pt. i. p. 192. Alcock's paper on Hoc. Bengal, lxviii. ii. (1899). 



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