VI MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



These galls, although externally resembling Cynips q. ficiis or more 

 properly Cynips q. forticornis Walsh, are structurally different. Dr. 

 Fitch says: " hollow bladder-like galls of the pale dull yellow color of a 

 faded oak leaf." 



The Live Oak fig galls are not hollow, and are hard and difficult to cut. 



The Live Oak Fig Gall. 



Cynips q. ficigera n. sp. 



Galls. — In clusters thickly crowded together around a limb, com- 

 pressing each other and shaped accordingly ; outwardly resembling com- 

 pressed figs, of a yellowish brown color ; interiorly hard and surrounding 

 a smooth oval kernel, which is plainly visible on detaching a gall, a part 

 of the kernel being imbedded in the twig, and when detached it leaves an 

 indentation in the twig. 



Gall-fly. — 9- Length .15-. 17 inch. Color reddish brown. Head and thorax 

 finely rugosely punctate; head, thorax, coxae, legs and first abdominal segment 

 densely pubescent; eyes dark brown; antennse rather long 14-jointed, third joint 

 long, others to seventh sub-equal ; parapsides distinct ; abdomen above dark 

 brown, beneath lighter; tibial spurs on fore legs; wings hyaline, veins yellowish; 

 radial vein apparently closed, but the submarginal is not prolonged along the 

 costal edge; areolet almost closed. 



Described from several 9 bred specimens. No males. 



The above is easily distinguished from Cynips q. forticornis (the males 

 of Dr. Fitch's fig gall, — Cynips q. ficus Fitch, being an Inquiline, and 

 placed by Baron Osten Sacken in Ceroptes), by its much larger size, that 

 being in length but .07-.10 inch and by the color of the abdomen, C. 

 forticornis being black. 



The Live Oak Globular Gall. 



This small globular gall grows on the young live oak trees close to the 

 ground, seldom over a foot and a half from the ground. 



Cynips q. omnivora n. sp. 



Galls. — Hard, pale brown, globular, hollow galls, varying in size from 

 five-twelfths to three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; growing separately 

 or two and three together from the bud axil of a twig. 



The rind is hard and tough and of an inch or more in thickness ; in 

 the hollow part is found a small, smooth, hard, oval kernel, .15 inch in 

 length, sometimes loose, but more often attached to the hull near the 

 bud axil. 



