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[Frym Proceedings Acad. Nat. Scieuces, Dec, 1S58.] 



ProdromTis descriptionis animalixiin evertebratorum, quas ia Expeditione ad 

 Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Kepublica Federata missa, Cadwala- 

 daro Ringgold et Jolianne Eodgers Dacibus, observavit et descripsit 



W. STIMPSON, 



P,\KSVII. CRUSTACEA ANOMOURA. .. \4 



V. ■" - ' ,„ Ij I. TELEOSOMI. 



Segmentum ultimum tkoracicu7n non liberum. 



Synopsis DROMIDEORUM. /y. \, i^ J^ /6 



A. Pedes 4ti 5tiqiie paris subprehensiles. 



Dromidia, nov. gen. Ccirapas convexus, pilosus. Palatum utrinque col- 

 liculo instructum. Foeminae sterni sulci ad segmentum clielipedum producti 

 et in tuberculum approximati ; appendices abdominis articuli peuultimi 

 minutse, celatce. Pedes iis Dromice similes. 



Typus, D. hirsutissima. Dromia hirsutissima, Lam'k ; An. s. vert. 

 V. 264. Desm. ; Consid. sur les Crust. p. 137, pl. xviii. f. 1. — Africa Australi. 



D. Antillensis, Stimpson. — Ins. Antillaruni. 



D. spongiosa et excavata, infra. 



? Dromia glohosa, Lam'k ; 1. c. v. 264. 



? Dromia gibhosa, .M. Edw. ; Hist. Nat. des Crust. ii. 175. 



? Dromia unidentata, Ruppel ; Beschr. und Abbild. Kurzscliw. Krabben, 16, 

 pl. iv. f. 2. — Sinu Arabico. 



? Dromia roiunda, McLeay ; in Smitli's Hist. S. Afr. Zool., p. 71. Africa 

 Australi. 



Cryptodromi.v, nov. gen. Carapax convexus, pubescens, vix pilosus. Pa- 

 latum utrinque colliculo instructum. Foeminre sterni sulci remoti, ad segmen- 

 tum pedum secundi paris tantum producti, terminis in tuberculis. Pedes iis 

 Dromice similes, sed nodosi. Species parvse. 



