PHOLIS, in Ichthyology, is the name of a small anguilliform fish. The back is brown, the belly is white, the whole back and sides are spotted, and the skin is soft, free of scales, but with a tough mucilaginous mat-
ter like the ccl. This species most of all approaches to the alauda; and though usually larger, yet Mr Ray doubts whether it really differs from it in any thing essential; the distinction is its colour, which though a very obvious is certainly a very precarious one.