360 bulletin: museum of compakative zoology. 



CADUI.US Philippi. 

 GADILA Gray. 



Gadila Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 169; type Dentalium gadus Montagu. 



Hdonyx Stimpson, Am. Journ. Conch., 1865, 1, p. 63, Dentalium clavatum Gould. 



Cadvilus (Gadila) striatus Dall. 



Plate 5, figure 3. 



Caduhts striatus Dall (U. S. Nat. Mus. label), Pilsbry, in Man. Conch., 1897, 17, 

 p. 179, pi. 35, figs. 9-13. 



U. S. S. " Albatross," station 3354, Gulf of Panama, in 322 fathoms, mud, 

 bottom temperature 46° P. U. S. N. Mus. 122,992. Also at station 3418, off 

 the Mexican coast near Acapulco, in 660 fathoms, sand, bottom temperature 

 39" P. 



Not unlike C albicomatus Dall, but more slender, and with more delicate 

 longitudinal striatiou. 



Cadulus (Gadila) albicomatus Dall. 



Plate 19, figure 3. 



Cadulus albicomatus Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 12, no. 773, p. 295, pi. 9, 

 fig. 8 ; Pilsbry, Man. Conch., 1897, 17, p. 178, pi. 35, fig. 15. 



U. S. S. "Albatross," station 3360, Gulf of Panama, in 1672 fathoms, sand, 

 bottom temperature 42° P. U. S. N. Mus. 122,993. Also off Manta, Ecuador, 

 in West Longitude 81° just south of the Equator, at station 2792, iu 401 

 fathoms, mud, bottom temperature 42°. 9. 



One of the largest and finest species of the genus. 



Cadulus (Gadila) calif ornicus Pilsbry and Sharp. 



Cadulus californicus Pilsbry and Sharp, Man. Conch., 1898, 17, p. 180, pi. 34, 

 figs. 6, 6, 7, 8. 



U. S. 8. "Albatross," station 3392, Gulf of Panama, iu 1270 fathoms, hard 

 bottom, temperature 36°.4 P. U. S. N. Mus. 122,994. Also from the latitude 

 of Tillamook Bay, Oregon, to San Diego, California, in from 218 to 222 fathoms, 

 temperatures ranging from 37. °3 to 43°.2. 



A large, stout species which varies somewhat in its degree of inflation. When 

 complete, the anal aperture has two strong lateral sulri and a slight curved exca- 

 vation in the medial line of the concave side between them. 



