16 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.61. 



ANDRICUS FURNESSAE (Weld). 



Callirhytis furnessae Weld Insect. Insit. Meust., vol. 1, 1913, pp. 132-3. 



As the tarsal claw has a distinct tooth, this species should be trans- 

 ferred to the genus AndricfUs^ following Dalla Torre and Kieffer 

 instead of Ashmead. 



ANDRICUS PETIOLICOLA (Bassett). 



Cynips petioHcola Bassett, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phihi., vol. 2, 18G3, p. 325. 

 Andricus quiuqiicsepfvm Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 12. 1885, 



p. 299. 

 Andricus cicalricnla Bassett, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 17, 1890, p. 80. 

 Andricus concolorans Kinsey, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 42, 1920, 



pp. 302-4, pi. 22,. figs. 12-13. 



The species quinqueseptum was described from " 12 specimens bred 

 in July," said to be males. Two specimens were found in the 

 United States National Museum labeled as this species. No othei*s 

 have been seen in other museums. The one in the old " museum col- 

 lection," labeled by Ashmead as the type, belongs to another genus, 

 and the one in the Ashmead collection agrees with the description 

 of the species, although it is a female, and this specimen was elected 

 as the holotype in July, 1921. As the antennae are described as 

 14-segmented, it is probable that the use of the sign for "male" 

 in the original description was a typographic error. This fly agrees 

 with specimens of petiolicola, and the gall confirms the idea that 

 they are the same species, although it is slightly different in shape 

 and occurs on the post oak. 



The writer studied the Bassett types of citratricula in the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and found he was unable 

 to distinguish them from the Bassett types of petiolicola, and the 

 six type galls of cicatricida on alha are similar to those of petiolicoJa 

 on prinits. 



Dr. A. C. Kinsey recently studied the " type material of Bassett's 

 Andricus dcafHcidus in the American Museum of Natural History " 

 and says that it "contains one female of-^. concolorans and a num- 

 ber of specimens of an inquiline. The description of the adult 

 cicatricnlus agrees with the inquiline, to which the name must be 

 applied; it would appear to be a Ceroptres.'^'' The writer examined 

 this material in June, 1921, and supplemented this Avith a study of 

 the type material of clcatncula in other museums. It was Bassett's 

 custom to put in his pill boxes all the material bred, including para- 

 sites and inquilines, and from this box sendings were made (un- 

 mounted and unsorted) to his correspondents with the name of the 

 species written on the cover and " types," if such was the case. An 

 examination of all the available sources shows that in this case it 

 consisted of four sioecies as follows : 



