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Outer surface of carpus and propodite of first two pair of legs 
uneven but not distinctly nodular. 
Last 2 pair of legs short, ending in claw-like dactyli, not cheliform ; 
the 3rd pair shorter than the 4th. 
A single small specimen from Mergui (Anderson collection). 
11. Dromia (Cryptodromia) Hilgendorfi, de Man. 
Cryptodromia Hilgendorfi, de Man, Archiv. f. Naturges. LIII. 1887, i. 404, 
pl. xvii. fig. 3. 
Carapace etc. with a short velvet-like tomentum, 
Carapace longer than broad, convex, smooth, without distinction 
of regions. “Cervical” groove broad and shallow. 
Front cut into 3 teeth, the lateral ones broad and triangular, the 
middle one so small aud deflexed as to be hardly visible in a dorsal 
view. 
There is no distinct tooth in the upper border of the orbit, but 
only an angular bulge, to mark the position of the inner supra-orbital 
angle. Outer orbital angle and sub-orbital lobe not dentiform. 
The antero-lateral borders of the carapace are smooth and entire, 
but as they bend sharply inwards towards the orbits their anterior 
angle forms a forwardly-directed tooth, the space between which and 
the outer-orbital angle is concave. 
A very small prominence on the postero-lateral border, just behind 
the branchial or “ cervical” groove. 
The chelipeds and legs have an uneven surface, but are not really 
nodular, though both the inner and outer angles of the wrist are 
strongly pronounced. 
The last 2 pair of legs are short and slender, the 4th (last) pair 
being very little longer than the 3rd; both end in stout claw-like 
dactyli but are not at all cheliform. 
The abdomen bends in very sharply from the 4th segment, making 
the under surface of the body very flat. 
In the Indian Museum are a male and a female from the Persian 
Gulf. 
The carapace of the larger of the two is 12 millim. long. 
Distribution: Indo-Malayan coasts. 
12. Dromia (Cryptodromia) ebalioides, n. sp. 
Carapace hardly at all tomentose: a few hairs on the borders of 
some of the leg-joints. 
Carapace subcircular with projecting front, convex, its surface 
closely and crisply granular: not only are all its regions very distinct 
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