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TAB. XXXIX. 

 CANCER Maja. 



Class 6, Insecta. Order 7. Aptera. 



Gen. Char. Feet eight, rarely six or ten, also two 

 claws. Palpi six, unequal. Eyes two, distant, 

 generally pedunculated, elongated, moveable. 

 Jaws corneous, thick. Lip triple. Tail jointed, 

 generally unarmed. 



Spec. Char. Thorax and two first joints of the 

 claws spinose. Claws small, finely serrated. 

 Feet eight, without spines. Covered, all but the 

 claws, with curved hairs. 



Syn. Cancer Maja. Gmel. Syst. v. 1. 2979. Joust. 

 Eccsang. t. 5.f. 5. 



We found this Crab on the sea-shore, near Penzance, n\ 

 June 1 799? and, on inquiry, found it had been confounded 

 with C. horridus of Pennant, and I suppose from that cir- 

 cumstance had not been thought new to Great Britain. We 

 find that the Cancer Maja of Herhst is the Canter horridui 

 of Pennant. The Cancer Maja in the British Museum is 

 the same as ours, named from Scdpoli, who refers to Mat- 

 thiolus Dioscorldes. The figure of the under side in 

 Johnston is very well executed. And Gmel in has strangely 

 referred to that figure, which has eight legs, ahhough he 

 observes of his, *^ pedibus sex." 

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