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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 JBrachyura in general. 
g P 35 , r ) Dromia hirtissima, Lam. 
Dromia hirtissima , Lam. Hist. Nat. des An. sans t ert. vol. v. p. 264'. 
g p> 30, ( ) Dromia rotunda, n. s. 
Descr. Dromia villosa, minirne tuberculata, tam longa qnam lata, globosa regione liepatica fos- 
sula obliqua utrinque immitil, lateribus anticis haud dentatis, clypeo anticc bidentato. 
Note. This species comes very near one from the Red Sea, described by Ruppell under the 
name of Dromia unidentata ; but the anterior sides of the shell have not an umdentated margin. 
The crab is all, except the tips of the fore feet, covered with a close, short, brown tomen- 
tmn. 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 innei side of the oibit, anc, 
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. 
