MAIA SQUINADO. 
Tas. XVIII. 
M. test’ fasciculato-pilosa, orbita superné spina unica, lateribus validé 5-spinosis, clypeo infra 
frontem spina breviuscula supra excavata. 
Cancer Squinado. Herbst. iii. tab. 56. adultus. 
i, t. 14.7.-84: 85, 
Cancer Maia. Scopol. Ent. Carn. 1126 
Sowerby Brit. Miscel. t. 39. 
Cancer spinosus. Oliv. Encycl. méth. hist. nat. vi. 173. 
Maja Squinado. Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. i. 37. 
Bose, Hist. Nat. des. Crust. i. 257. 
Leach, Edinb, Encycl. vii. 394. 431. 
- Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 326. 
Encycl. Britan. Suppl. i. 415. 
Fig. I. Maia Squinado mas. 2%. Antenna externa. 3. Pedipalpus externus. 4. maris 
abdomen. 5. Famin# jun. abdomen. 6. Maia Squinado raminz, jun. 
This animal has been confounded with Lithodes Maia and with Parthenope horrida in many 
cabinets. It is extremely common in deep water off the South Western coasts of Devon and 
Cornwall, being called by the fishermen King-crab or Thornback. 
In the young state it approaches the shore, and is often taken in the common net: it differs so 
much in general appearance from the adult, that a figure of it is added. 
