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as pedicel, and one-fourth longer than F2, latter only slightly longer 

 than F3, this one as long as F4; F2 to F4 each not greatly longer 

 than thick, club about as long as F3 and F4 combined, funicular 

 joints about uniformly wide; fore part of abdomen smooth, but 

 segments 3, 4, and 5 minutely roughened, granulose. 



Type localit}/. — Jacksonville, Fla. (W. H. Ashmead). 



Ty^pe.— Female, U.S.N.M. No. 25494. 



Paratypes. — One female and one male paratype on slides in the 

 writer's collection ; other male paratypes and the allotype on points in 

 the collection of the United States National Museum. Redescribed 

 from several paratypes, and description checked with type, allotype, 

 and other paratypes: bred from an oak gall doubtfully determined 

 by Ashmead as Cynips q.-flcus Fitch-BiorMsa forticomis (Walsh), 

 known as the oak fig gall. Kinsey, however, states that true B. 

 forticomis is not known from Florida. 



Reinarhs. — I am convinced that D. cateshaei Ashmead is identical 

 with D. -fiava Ashmead. Both have been reared from galls of Andri- 

 cus in Florida. D. cateshaei is represented by three females labeled 

 in Ashmead's handwriting. The type has no submarginal band, 

 while the paratype has a band in every respect like that of the typi- 

 cal fiava. The third female has a poorly developed band, inter- 

 mediate in form. In all cases the band is faint. Aside from this 

 variable band, cateshaei and flava are alike. The cateshaei series 

 seems to be abnormal in this wing character. No such variation in 

 the wing band is known from any other species of this genus. 



C. J. Triggerson reports rearing 600 of this species from the white- 

 oak leaf galls Cynips pezomachoides erinacei (Mayr) {Dryophanta 

 erinacei (Mayr)] as parasites of the gall maker. I have examined 

 two specimens of this lot from Cornell University through the kind- 

 ness of Dr. P. P. Babiy. Six females taken by Doctor Ashmead at 

 Jacksonville, Fla., are labeled "^. foridensis'''' and "5". OTnnivoray 

 They agree in all respects with the female paratype at hand and check 

 also with all the other material of this species recorded here. Andi^-i- 

 ctts floridensis (Beutenmueller) lives in a stem gall on the post oak 

 {Quercus stellata) and its close relatives, according to Kinsey. This 

 authority states further, in a letter, that " H. omnivora is a Dishol- 

 caspis ordinarily considered a variety of or synonymous with Z>. 

 glohulus or D. mammal He adds that glohuliLs or mamma does not 

 range into Florida. 



I have received the following reared specimens from L. H. Weld : 

 1 female (Weld No. 21) from the gall of Callirhytis seminator 

 (Harris) on white oak {Quercus alha) at Evanston, 111.; 2 of each 

 sex (Weld No. 640) from the galls of C. tubicola (Osten Sacken) on 

 Q. stellata at Ironton, Mo. ; 1 of each sex (Weld No. 820) from the 

 gall of Andricus tuhularius Weld on Q. vmdulata at Tijeras, N. Mex.; 



