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specimens, of both sexes, were collected at Bombay.
It frequents sandy places. An average male measures :- The carapace is subeircular, almost smooth. Its border is defined by a line of uniformly sized beads. The epistome projects well beyond the edge of the front, and its margin is not cleft below the eye. The terminal segment of the exognath of the external maxlipeds is semicircular. The hand of the chelipeds is very slightly longer than broad. Colour smoky bluish brown above, the blue deepest on the carapace. The anterior male abdominal
appendage is broad at the base and abruptly narrows half the way; the tip
is bent suddenly and bears numerous spines on a lobule just like a cock's
comb.
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