With four arms and a chitinous shell,' his 2056 counterpart said, 'it would have been something to see one of them in action.
He knew that flecks of white appeared on Arachnians' chitinous shells as they reached advanced age, and this one was covered with them.
He was indeed black instead of the usual gray-green, with an odd pattern of dots on his chitinous shell.
Mealworms and superworms should not be fed to them, due to their hard chitinous shell.
The chitinous shell, though, was harder than he had expected.
The evidence was circumstantial, because the chitinous shells of shrimp are so thin they degrade rapidly, leaving no fossil remains.
Hair had given way to the darker, more uniform pattern of chitinous shell.
But I don't want that, either; a chitinous shell and the rest.
"Like an old man damaged by radiation; you're just a hollow chitinous shell."
A new chitinous shell, much folded and compressed, forms beneath the old one.