62 
1790. Cancer dormitator, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, Pt. 8, 
Vol. I.) p. 250; Pl: 18) tig. za: 
1798. Dromia Rumphit, Fabricius, Supplementum Ent. Syst., 
P- 359- 
1839. Dromia Rumphu, de Haan, Crustacea Japonica, decas 
quarta, pp. 105, 107,PL 32 and’ Pia. 
1877. Dromia Rumphii, Targioni Tozzetti, Crost. Brachiuri e 
Anomouri della Magenta, p. 207. 
1899. Dromia Rumphit, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
Vol. LXVITE “Pia ping. 
1g01. Drona Rumphit, Alcock, Catal. Indian Decapod Crus- 
tacea,’ Pp: 44; 0Pi arate. eA: 
1903. Dromta dormia, Borradaile, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 
Vol.. MEepeaare 
Several other references are supplied by Alcock, with whose 
description our specimen well agrees. The very convex 
tomentose carapace shows plainly the branchial or ‘‘ second 
cervical ”’ groove, and less distinctly the outlines of the cardiac 
region. The front is tridentate, the lower median tooth, 
however, being the least conspicuous, not as in Alcock’s 
account “slightly the most prominent.” 
The chelipeds have two conspicuous nodules on the wrist, 
the fingers apically bare and flesh-coloured with some reminis- 
cence of rose tint, their clasping teeth stronger than represented 
in any of the figures above cited. The presence of an epipod 
on these limbs could not be ascertained in the long-dried 
specimen, 
The fingers of the second and third legs are bare above, 
the thick felt of setules forming two divergent crests on either 
side, a feature to which de Haan and Tozzetti have both called 
attention. The fourth and fifth legs are very short. 
The sternal sulci of the female are apically divergent, and 
reach very nearly to the segment of the chelipeds. 
Length of carapace, 44mm.; greatest breadth, 52 mm. 
One specimen, from Durban Museum ; place of origin, Natal 
Bay. 
Gen. Dromidia, Stimpson. 
1858. Dromidia, Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Sci. Philad., Pp: 225 
(Prodromus, p. 63). 
1888. Dromidia, Henderson, Challenger Anomura, Reports, 
Vol. AXVIL.,.<p.me2t 
1898. Dromidia, Ortmann, Bronn’s Thierreich, Vol. V., Liefe- 
rung 52, p. I155. 
