NOTES ON CYNIPID WASPS WELD. 



DIPLOLEPIS BREVIPENNATA (Gillette). 



Holcaspis brevipennata Gillette, Ent. News, vol. 4, 1893, p. 33. 

 Andricus pellucidus Kinsey, Bull. Amer. Miis. Nat. Hist., vol. 42. 1920, 

 pp. 309-10, 384, pi. 23, figs. 19-21. 



The type of hrevrpeniiafa in the American Museum belongs in 

 Diplolepis of the Dalla ToiTe and Kieffer monograph of 1910. It 

 has the second tergite prolonged, the carina on propodeum angled, 

 a transverse groove at base of scutellum, complete parapsidal grooves, 

 and claws with a tooth. It goes in that section of the genus with 

 spotted wings and is unique in having the wings reduced in size 

 although not shorter than the abdomen, as maintained in the original 

 description. The abdomen reaches two-thirds of the distvint-e from 

 the tip of radial cell to apex of wing, so the wing reaches slightly 

 beyond tip of abdomen. The areolet is incomplete. The type 

 locality Manitou, Colorado. 



A. pellucidus was described from a similar gall from practically the 

 same locality. The writer has seen cotypes kindly loaned by Doctor 

 Kinsey and others in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and has 

 been unable to separate them from hrevipennata. 



The United States National Museum has one specimen (Hopkins, 

 U. S. No. 10781') from Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, 

 Colorado, reared November 20, 1918, which the writer has determined 

 as this species. It issued normally and is in better condition than 

 an}' of the above-mentioned t^^pe material. Its abdomen reaches to 

 largest spot in apical area. The writer has one specimen cut alive 

 out of a gall on November 9, 1917, the galls being collected on 

 November 4. The writer has collected what seemed to be the galls 

 of this species at Manitou, Trinidad, and Morley, Colorado; Las 

 Vegas, Sandia Mountains, and Fierro, New Mexico; Williams and 

 Prescott, Arizona ; and Alpine, Texas. 



DIPLOLEPIS SPLENDENS (Weld). 



Andrlftis splendcvs Weld, Canail. Ent., vol. 51, 1919, pp. 254-5. 

 This species should be transferred to the genus Diplolepis. 



DRYOCOSMUS FASCIATUS (Bassett). 



Ilolcfifipis fasciata Bassett, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1900, p. 328. 



This species has not at all the habitus of a Disholcaspis, the meso- 

 scutum being bare, smooth, and shining, the parapsidal grooves 

 complete, and the claws simple. It seems to belong in the genus 

 Dryscosmvs. 



XYSTOTERAS POCULUM, new species. 



Female. — Black. Head from above broader than thorax ; length in 

 median line half width, scarcely widened behind eyes ; from in front 



