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We have only found it alive at Salcomb on the fouth 

 coaft of Devonjliire, where it is fufficiently plentiful in 

 decayed wood at low-water mark, in company with the 

 DaElylus and Parvus. 



^ 3. 



Striatus. Pholas Striata. Lm. Syjl. p. 1111. 



GmL Syji. p. 3215. S.—Turt. Lin. iv. p. 1 72. 

 Chan. Conch, viii. t. 102. f. SC4. S66. 

 Pholas Nanus. Pult. Cat. Dorfct. p. 27. 

 Pholas Conoides. Phil. Trans. Iv. p. 1. t. 1. 



P. with a conoid white fhell, the larger end flrongly 

 reticulated, the reft irregularly ftriated : at the front 

 margin the lip feems to fold back, and forms a fmooth 

 furface on the reticulated part : the plate or fliield at 

 the hinge is large, of a fub-oval fliape, beneath which is 

 a narrow plate joined to the membrane which conneCis 

 the valves: in the front is another narrow plate and 

 membrane, which feems to prevent the fhell from open- 

 ing, except at the ends : at the fmaller end it gapes con- 

 iiderably, the larger end nearly clofed : tooth long, flen- 

 der, and much curved. Length half an inch, breadth 

 three-quarters. 



Whether this fpecies can ftriftly be faid to be EjigliJJi 

 may be doubted; it is however not uncommonly found 

 burrowed in the planks at the bottoms of fliips, returned 



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