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A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 



[No. 2, 



A. undecimspinosa. 



ii. Median lateral epibranchial 

 spines claw-like, not longer 

 than the spines on the poster- 

 ior part of the carapace, their 

 length being not a quarter the 

 breadth of the carapace : — 



a. Wine spines on margins 

 of carapace, — 3 large 

 and 6 smaller: regions of 



carapace very ill-defined A. novemspinosa. 



b. Eleven spines on mar- 

 gins of carapace, — none 

 of them very large : re- 

 gions of carapace well 

 defined 



Fingers shorter than the hand : sur- 

 face of carapace covered with spines, 

 or with granules and larger 

 tubercles : — 



i. Carapace longer than broad : 



chelipeds less than twice the 



length of the carapace : — 



a. Carapace densely spiny : 

 eleven large marginal 

 spines 



b. Carapace with granules 

 and claviform tubercles : 

 eleven marginal promi- 

 nences, of which only 4 

 or 5 can be called spines 



ii. Carapace broader than long : 

 chelipeds a little over twice 

 the length of the carapace : 

 carapace with granules and 

 large tubercles 



A. erinaceus. 



A. tuber culata. 



A. pulcherrima. 

 (=A. septemspinosa, 

 Bell.) 



II. Margins of carapace with large tubercles 

 in place of spines, hepatic regions dorsally 

 sunken and flat : abdomen of adult male 

 consisting of 4 pieces, and the second piece 

 sunk almost out of sight 



A. gracilipes. 



