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Stirps. DROMIINA. 



Sub-genus. Dromia, Fab. 



Milne Edwards has described the form of this sub-genus in one of its early stages of meta- 

 morphosis, and has also very distinctly pointed out the various points in which the adult state 

 of Dromia differs from that of the Brachyura in general. 



Descr. Dromia villosa, minime tuberculata, tarn longa quam lata, globosa regions hepatica fos- 

 sul^ obliqua utrinque munita, lateribus anticis hand dentatis, clypeo antice bidentato. 



Note. This species comes very near one from the Red Sea, described by Rlippell under the 

 name of Dromia unidentata; but the anterior sides of the shell have not an unidentated margin. 

 The crab is all, except the tips of the fore feet, covered with a close, short, brown tomen- 

 tum. The shell is round, with a convex globular back. Besides the two middle triangular 

 teeth of the clypeus, there is a short blunt one above the inner side of the orbit, and 

 vestiges of another blunt tooth above the outer side. The length is about sixteen lines. 



Dr. Smith has brought no species of the stirps Dorippina from the Cape. 



Sp. 35. ( 



) Dromia hirtissima, Lam. 

 Dromia hirtissi^na, Lam. Hist. Nat. des An. sans Vert. vol. v. p. 264. 



Sp. 36. ( 



) Dromia rotunda, n. s. 



