124 Carcinological Fauna of India. 
Homolide :—Homola (Paromola, Homolax) Paromolopsis, 
Homo.Lipea Hypsophrys. 
Latreillide :—Latreillopsis, Latreillia. 
DROMIACEA or BRACHYURA PRIMIGENIA. 
Anomoures Dromiens and Homoliens, (part) Milne Edwards, Hist Nat. Crust. 
II., pp. 168, 180. 
Dromiacea, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust. p. 102. 
Dromidea vel Anomoura Maiidica Superiora, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. Crust. pt. 1, 
p. 400. 
Anomoura Dromidea, Miers, Cat. Crust. New Zealand, p. 57. 
Dromiacea, J. BK. V. Boas, Recherches sur les affinités des Crustacés décapodes, 
p. 202. 
Anomoura Dromidea, Haswell, Cat. Austral. Crust. p. 138. 
Anomura Dromidea, Henderson, Challenger Reports, Zoology, Vol. XXVI., p. 2. 
Dromiacés (Etudes Comparatives des), Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, 
(8) VIIL., 1896, pp. 34-108. 
Dromiidea, Ortmann in Bronn’s Thier Reich, V. ii., Arthropoda, p. 11538. 
Carapace seldom broader than long, subquadrilateral or subovoid 
(sometimes sub-circular, or urn-shaped, or sub-pentagonal), often (as 
also the appendages) pilose. Front narrow. 
Orbits and antennulary fossee may either be altogether wanting, or 
there may be common orbito-antennulary fossz into which the eyes and 
antennules are both retractile. 
The antennal peduncle consists of four separate joints, and the 
antennal flagellum is long. 
The epistome is triangular or truncate-triangular, and is well 
delimited from the palate. 
The buccal cavern is quadrilateral, but is usually broader in front 
than behind. The external maxillipeds may be pediform, or sub-pedi- 
form, or completely opercular. 
The last pair of legs are dorsal in position, and, with few exceptions, 
are prehensile slender and reduced in size, or even sometimes rudiment- 
ary. ‘T’he penultimate pair sometimes resemble the last pair. 
The abdomen in both sexes is large, and usually consists of seven 
separate segments: in the male it has the usual anterior two pairs of 
modified copulatory appendages: in the female it has the usual four 
pairs of ovigerous appendages and, in addition, a pair of smaller 
uniramous appendages situated on the first segment. 
The genital ducts of the female open upon the bases of the 2nd pair 
of legs (third pereiopods): those of the male open on the bases of the 
fourth pair of legs (5th pereiopods). : 
The gills are usually phyllobranchie, but may be trichobranchiz, 
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