Class VI. SHELLS. 77 



Ph. Lin. Syft. 1 1 II. Lift. Angl tah. V. /^. 38. Crifpatus. 



Faun. Suec. No. 2125. 12, Curled. 



Ph. with a ftrong" oval {hell \ the half next to 

 the hinge waved and flriated \ tooth large and 

 firong \ breadth three inches and a half ; length 

 one and three quarters, ^ah. xl. fig. 12. 



This genus takes its name from pwAsw, to lurk 

 in cavities. A Ihell of the name of Pholis and 

 Pholas, is mentioned by Ariftotk and Athenaus \ but 

 I fufpecl it to be the Daffy lus of Pliny. A fpecies 

 now called Datyl, abounding within the rocks of 

 the Mediterranean^ is much admired as a food *. 



Ph. with a mell thinner than the former; and Parvus. 

 the tooth very (lender and oblique ; in externals 

 refembling the former, only never found larger 

 than a hazel nut. 



I have often taken them out of the cells they 

 had formed in hard clay, below high-water mark, 

 on many of our mores. They alfo perforate the 

 harden: oak plank that accidentally is lodged in 

 the water. I have a piece filled with them, which 

 was found near Penfacola in Weft Florida, and pre- 

 fented to me by that ingenious naturalift the late 

 John Ellis, Efquire. 



* Pliny, lib, ix. c. 6u ArmftrongsHiJt. Minorca, 173. 



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