210 DE. J. G. DE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOTIS 



immediately behind the cervical suture. The posterior margin 

 of the cephalothorax is nearly as broad as the distance between 

 the first antero-lateral teeth. 



The triangular epistome or interantennular space is in contact 

 with the front. The slightly convex subhepatic and the ptery- 

 gostomian regions are smooth and unarmed, but a small, subacute 

 tooth occurs at the external angle of the anterior margin of the 

 buccal cavity. The male abdomen is quite similar to that of 

 D. caput-mortuum ; the terminal joint is exactly once and a half 

 as long as the penultimate, and the posterior margin of the 

 penultimate joint measures twice the length of this joint. 



The legs closely resemble those of D. caput-mortuum. The cheli- 

 pedes are equal and smooth. The upper margin of the arm bears 

 a row of five, small, equal, obtuse teeth or tubercles, and similar 

 small tubercles are found on the two other margins. The three 

 surfaces of the arm are smooth. The upper surface of the wrist 

 is smooth ; as in D. caput-mortuum, the anterior margin of the 

 upper surface, which articulates with the hand, is raised on either 

 side into an obtuse prominence, and the distal half of the inner 

 margin is armed with four small obtuse teeth, which gradually 

 increase a little in size, so that the distal one is the largest. 

 The hands resemble those of D. capUt-mortuum. Their outer and 

 inner surfaces are smooth, but the upper margin of the palm is 

 armed with two or three small, obtuse teeth. The calcareous 

 fingers are of a beautiful rose-colour, and when closed meet 

 together along their whole length ; they are strongly toothed, 

 the inner edge of the mobile finger with five, that of the immobile 

 finger with four teeth, and the teeth of the index are slightly larger 

 thau those of the mobile finger. 



The surfaces of the other legs are also smooth, and nowhere 

 present nodosities or tubercles. The second and third pairs of 

 legs are about of the same length, and almost as long, as the 

 chelipedes ; the fourth pair are only half as long, and the last 

 pair are somewhat shorter and smaller than the legs of the second 

 pair. As already observed, the entire animal, with the exception 

 of the fingers of the anterior legs, which are smooth and glabrous, 

 is everywhere covered with a close velvety pubescence. 



Although I have not been able to study the female, I refer this 

 species to the subgenus Bromidia, on account of its ridged endo- 

 stome, and because it completely agrees in its generic characters 

 with D. unidentata, Eiipp., which is undoubtedly a true Dromidia. 



