Some years ago I contributed to the Νέα Ήμέρα, then a flourishing Greek weekly journal in Trieste, a treatise on Greek Cynegetics. Pressing occupations compelled me to stop short at the chapter on Dogs—their Greek names and various breeds. Among the considerable material collected on this subject there occurred the following definition from Hesychius: Φόλυες· κύνες οἳ πυρροὶ ὄντες μέλανα στόματα εἵχον. Now dogs whose mouths could be said to be black were unknown until the so-called chows were quite recently introduced into the West from China. Evidently we have here some copyist's error, such as abound in this invaluable vocabulary, so highly prized by Coray. It appeared to me that the problem might be solved by a close inquiry into the use and meaning of the word φόλυς.