LITHODES MAJA. 
Tas. AAITV: 
L. rostro bifurco basi spinoso, digitis fasciculato-pilosis, abdomine basi spinoso. 
Cancer Maja. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1046. 41. 
Fn. Sv. ed. 2. No. 2031. 
Herbst 1. 219. Tab. 15. fig. 87. 
Cancer horridus. Penn. Brit. Zool. 4. 7. Pl. 7. sfig. 14. 
Inachus Maja. Fab. Suppl. Ent. Syst. 358. 15. 
Lithodes Arctica. Latr. Gen. Crust. et Insect. 1. 40. 
Lithodes Maja. Leach Edin. Encycl. 7. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 332. 
Maia Araignée. Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust. et des Insect. vi. p. 91. 
Le Crabe epineux. .Ascan. Icon. Rer. Natur. Tab. xxxx. 
Fig. 1, Lithodes Maja. 2, Pedipalpus geminus externus. 3, Pes posticus. 4, Ab- 
domen. 
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Lithodes Maja inhabits the coasts of Aberdeen and Yorkshire ; and has likewise been taken 
at the mouth of the Frith of Forth: it must, however, be considered as one of the rarer 
Crustacea of Britain, as it has no where occurred in any degree of plenty. 
Notwithstanding the spines with which this animal is armed, it is sometimes devoured 
by the larger species of Gadus, and has been taken from the stomach of a cod by P. Neill, Esq. 
S.W..S: 
Colour, when living, flesh-red. 
Seba in the third volume of his Thesaurus, tab. 18. fig. 10. and tab. 22. fig. 1. has given 
good representations of this species, which, from the false references of Linné ( Syst. Nat. 1. 
1047 ), have caused the erroneous synonyms of Pennant, who confounded it with Parthenope hor- 
rida* (Cancer horridus Linné) ; and this error, although repeatedly pointed out, has been 
continued in the new edition of Pennant’s British Zoology. 
* Vide Leach Zoological Miscellany, vol. ii. page 107. 
