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TAB. XXXIX. 
CANCER Maja. 
Class 6, Insecta. Order ‘J , 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. Jonst. 
Exsang. t. 5.f. 5. 
We found this Crab on the sea-shore, near Penzance, in 
June 1799} 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 Herlst is the Cancer horridus 
of Pennant. The Cancer Maja in the British Museum is 
the same as ours, named from Scopoli, who refers to Mat- 
thiolus Dioscorides. The figure of the under side in 
Johnston is very well executed. And Gmelin has strangely 
referred to that figure, which has eight legs, although he 
observes of his, “ pedibus sex.” 
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