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Tribe ANOMALA. 

 Family DEOMID^. 



Genus DROMIA Fataricius. 



KEY TO THE WEST AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS DROMIA. 



A. Front simple. 



B. Antero lateral margin entire fulvohispida. 



B'. Antero-lateral margin four- toothed vulgaris. 



A'. Front two-spinecl spinirostris. 



DROMIA VULGARIS Milne-Edwards. 



Dromia vulgaris Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., II, 1837, p. 173, pi. xxi, 



figs. 5-8. 



Range. — Mediterranean; Atlantic coast of Europe; West African 

 islands. 



West African islands. — Canaries (Brulle); Princes Island, and St. 

 Thomas Island (Osorio); St. Helena (Bate). 



DROMIA FULVOHISPIDA Miers. 



Dromia fulvohispida Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 270, pi. xvi, fig. 1. 



West African locality. — Goree Bay, Senegambia, 9 to 15 fathoms 

 (Miers). 



DROMIA SPINIROSTRIS Miers. 



Dromia spinirostris Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 271, pi. xvi, 

 fig. 2. 



West African localities. — Goree Bay, Senegambia, 9 to 15 fathoms 

 (Miers) ; Princes Island and St. Thomas Island (with a piece of wood 

 on its back) (Osorio). 



Suborder MACRURA. 



Tribe HIPPID^^. 



Family HIPPID^. 



Genus HIPPA Fabricius. 



HIPPA CUBENSIS (Saussure) . 



Bemipes cuhensis Saussure, Rev. Mag. Zool. (2), IX, 1857, p. 503. 

 Bemipes scutellatus Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. 'London, XIV, 1879, p. 319. (Not 

 Hippa scutellata Fabricius, 1793.) 



Range. — Florida Keys to Brazil ; Bermuda (Henderson) ; West Africa 

 and adjacent islands. 



West African localities. — Cape Verde Islands (Studer, Miers, Cun- 

 ningham, Henderson); Dahomey (Osorio); St. Thomas (Osorio); Isla 

 das Kolas (Osorio); Quinchoxo (Studer); Ascension Island (Miers, 

 Benedict). 



