1899.] A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 163 



All parts except the tips of the fingers and of the dactyli are 

 tomentose. 



Carapace not elongate, subglobose. Front broadly triangular, 

 somewhat deflexed, dorsally grooved, rather deeply notched at tip (of 

 the Dynomene-type). 



Palate well delimited from the epistome : efferent branchial 

 channels defined by ridges. 



The chelipeds and legs are as in typical Dromia, except that the 

 chelipeds are not at all nodose. 



The sternal grooves of the female are wide apart and do not reach 

 to the level of the genital openings, exactly resembling those of Dyno- 

 mene. 



Though the gills are phyllobrancliise the individual gill-plates are 

 narrow and thick and are undoubtedly transitional. 



19. Sphserodromia Kendalli, Alcock & Anderson. 



Dromidia Kendalli, Alcock & Anderson, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXITI. pt. 2, 1894, 

 p. 175 : Illustrations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Crustacea, pi. xxiv. figs. 1, 

 la. 



Bromia {Sphserodromia) Kendalli, Alcock, Investigator Deep-Sea Brachyura, 

 p. IG. 



Carapace etc. covered with a dense, yellowish, velvet-like tomen- 

 tum. 



Carapace sub-circular, globose, smooth except for a few vesiculous 

 granules on the pterygostomian regions and on the posterior part of the 

 sidewall, only the cardiac region and the branchial, or " cervical " 

 groove are marked. [The true cervical groove is not distinguishable on 

 the dorsum of the carapace]. 



The front consists of two triangular teeth. The upper border of 

 the orbit is oblique, but there is no tooth — only a break, or fold, better 

 visible from below than from above — to mark the true inner supra- 

 orbital angle. The outer angle of the orbit is not defined. The sub- 

 orbital lobe is broadly and bluntly triangular. 



Lateral borders of the carapace entire, the antero-lateral borders 

 subcristiform and ending at the sub-orbital lobe. 



The external maxillipeds when closed leave a gap between their 

 anterior border and the edge of the epistome. 



Vesiculous granules are present on the edges of the arms, on the 

 upper and outer surfaces of the wrists, and everywhere on the hands 

 except on the lower part of the inner surface. 



The last two pairs of legs are about equal and are about half as 

 long as the other legs : each ends in a small claw-like dactylus which 

 is opposed to two or three tiny spinules at the end of its propodite. 



