62 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXII. 



crabs,* 3 the striated cherare,** the smooth chcmse, the ehenue 

 Li-longing to the genus of pelorides, 94 all differing in the va- 

 riety of their colours and in the roundness of the shells; the 

 chcmae glycymarides,* 6 still larger than the pelorides ; thence 

 luthia or coryphia ; w the various kinds of shellfish, nmoug 

 -which we find the pearl oysters," the cochlea?, 99 (belonging to 

 which class are the pentadactyli, 1 ) the helices, 2 by some known 

 as aetinophori, the spokes 3 on whose shells are used for musical 

 purposes ;* and, in addition to these, the round cochlea), the 

 shells of which are used in measuring oil, as also the sea- 

 cucumber, 6 the cynopos,* the cammarus, 7 and the eynosdexia.* 

 Xext to these we have the sea-dragon, 9 a fish which, accord- 

 ing to some, is altogether distinct from the dracunculus, 10 and 

 resembles the gcrricula in appearance, it having on the gills u 

 stickle which points towards the tail and inilicts a wound like 

 that of the scorpion 11 when the fish is handled the erythi- 

 ims, 12 the cch enc'is, 13 the sea-urchin, 14 the sea-elephant, a black 

 kind of. crayfish, with four forked legs, in addition to two 

 arms with double joints, and furnished, each of them, with 

 a pair of claws, indented at the edge; the faber, 1 * also, or 

 zx'us, the glauciscus, 16 the glanis, 17 the gonger, 1 * the gerrcs, 1 * 



93 See B. ix. c. 51. 



** Or ** chanue ;" different varieties of gaping cockles, 



** Or '* monster "-cockle*. Vti Or * \veet " cockles. 



7 See Chupter '11 of tliis Book. H See B. ix. c. 54. 



w Or "cochli." As to the various kimta of cochh re, see 15. ix. o. Jil. 



1 '* Five-fingered." So called from home peculiarity in tlieir shnpe. 



s Con;i<!ercd by some to be the striated mussel, the 1'eeteii of JJiinartm. 



* * Radii." 



4 Tliis is not improbably the meaning of the very elliptical sentence, 

 "Quibus radii cantunt." 5 JSre B. ix. c. 1. 



6 The- * 4 d<s'8-facr," literally. This fish has not been identified: in- 

 deed the reading is doubtful. 



7 A kind of crab or crayfish. See B. xxvii. c. 2. 



s Liu-rally, the 4t dog's right hand." Thin fish has not been identified : 

 JIard<min suggests that it may have been a zoophyte. 



* See B. ix. c. 43, and Chapters 17 and 26 of this Book. 



lf> Or *' little drajron." J1 The sea-scorpion, probably. 



- See B. ix. c. "23 ; also Chapters 31 and 50 of tin* Hook. 

 n Or Kemora. See B. ix. c, 41 ; al>o Chapter I of this Book. 



1 See 1?. ix. cc. U, 74. la See B. ix. c. 32. 



** See Chapter 46 of the present Book. i: Sec B. iz. c. 07. 



lk l^^^^ibly the same as the " Conger " of B. ix c. 21. 

 19 A fi:>h similar, most probably, to the u p-rricula" previously mentioned. 

 Holland caSL it a "pilchard " or ** herring." 



