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families Homoldromiidse, Dromiidae, and Dynomenidse, the 

 latter embracing the Homolidse and Latreilliidse. 



Fam.: Dromiidae. 



1899. DromiidQe, Alcock, Journ- Asiat. Soc. Bengal^ vol. 68, pt. 



2, p. 135- 

 1901. Dromiidae, Alcock, ^atal. Indian Decapod Crustacea 



Brachyura primigenia, p- 2i7- 

 The family, as recently restricted by Alcock, contains the 

 genera Dromia, Eudromia, Sphaerodromia, Conchoecetes, Hypo- 

 concha, Cryptodromia, Petalomera, Pseudodromia, and Lasiodromia. 

 Dromidia, Stimpson, including Drotnidiopsis, Borradaile, is re- 

 garded as a subgenus of Dromia. Lasiodromia is a new name 

 not unreasonably substituted for Homalodromia, Miers, which is 

 distinct from the earlier Homolodromia, A. Milne-Edwards, in a 

 aififerent family; but Alcock remains uncertain whether Lasio- 

 dromia should be separated from Stimpson's Pseudodromia. He 

 is also doubtful whether Ascidiophilus, Richters, should be 

 allotted to this familv. 



Gen.: Conchoecetes, Stimpson. 



1858. Conchoecetes, Stimpson, Proc. Acad- Phinlad., p. 226 (64). 

 1887. Conchoecetes, A. O. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc- London, 



vol. 20, pp. 108, III. 



Conchoecetes, Henderson, Challenger Anomura, Reports, 



vol. 27, p. 17. 

 1893- Conchoecetes, Stebbing, History of Crustacea, p- 135. 

 1899- Conchoecetes, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 68, 



p. 150. 

 1901. Conchoecetes, Alcock, Catal. Indian Decap. Crust-, 



Brachyura primigenia, p. 40. 

 In this genus the carapace is depressed, subpentagonal; the 

 fifth pair of legs, which are turned forwards along the sides of the 

 carapace, are short and slender, not subchelate, with the finger 

 minute; the preceding pair are not elongate, but robust, with a 

 strong hooked finger, folding round the edge of the mollasc-valve, 

 its grip upon which is aidtd by the obtuse process of the preced- 

 ing joint. t '"^' 



Conchoecetes artifictosus (Fabricius). 



1798. Dromia artificiosa, Fabricius, Supplementum Ent. Syst., p. 



360. 



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