ABT. 28 CHALCID FLIES NORTH OF MEXICO — BALDUF 75 



Stone Gap, Va., Q. alba-, a few from galls of A. aciculatus Beuten- 

 mueller on Q. stellata^ Austin, Tex.; and one, same, from Yoakum, 

 Tex.; the gall makers of these Kinsey lots issued between October 

 25 and December 4, 1919. Several specimens dated June 29, 1924, 

 from galls of A. 'petiolicola var. on Q. Mcolor at Winona Lake, 

 Ind., were collected by F. Payne and sent me through Doctor Kin- 

 sey ; I have reared a female from the stem gall of Disholcaspis Tnam- 

 mM (Walsh) on Q. rrmcrocarpa, Urbana, 111., May 23, 1924, and 3 

 females issued March 21, 1929, from galls of D. globulus (Fitch) 

 collected on and under Q. michauxii at Catlin, 111., on February 24, 

 1929; a female (463*^) reared by J. W. Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, on 

 June 24, 1895, from gall of Neurotenus saltatorius'^. \ several fe- 

 males (3126°^) from N. hatafus'^. {Cynips q-hatahis'^.), on Q. alba, 

 June 30, 1883, Virginia, by Theodore Pergande; 2 (2610«) issued 

 May 4, 1882, from cynipid galls received at Washington, D. C, 

 on March 23, and collected from oak by H. K. Morrison at Fort 

 Grant, Ariz.; another (2744") with same data as preceding issued in 

 transit to Washington, D. C., and was received on June 12, 1882; a 

 female (189="°) came from Cadet, Mo., where it was presumably 

 reared on February 10, 1883; 3 females (158'') on multiple point 

 mount are from J. W. Letterman, Allenton, Mo., A. jloecl (Walsh), 

 Q. alba, February 14; 2 from oak, Washington, D. C, May 12, 1895; 

 1 Biscay Bay, Fla., 2 from Texas (Belfrage) ; 2 from New Brunswick, 

 N. J. ; 1, probably from a gall, is dated October 27, 1876 ; another 

 (17^) from oak gall, St. Louis, Mo., C. V. Riley; A. T. McClay 

 reared a female from an unidentified gall at Hillview, 111., April 

 6, 1928 ; L. H. Weld reared and sent me a small series of each of the 

 following from cynipid galls, the numbers in parentheses being 

 Weld's record numbers; Evanston, 111. (210), Callirhytis scitula 

 (Bassett), Q. coccinea; same locality (209), C. tumiflca (Osten 

 Sacken), Q. borealis; same place (21), C. seminator (Harris), on 

 Q. alba; Moline, 111. (168), C. flampes (Gillette), Q. macrocarpa; 

 Winnetka, 111. (35), Acraspis erinacei Beutenmueller, Q. dlha; Iron- 

 ton, Mo. (660), Andrlcus paAtoni (Bassett), Q. stellata; and East 

 Falls Church, Va. (1124), A. murtfeldtae Ashmead, Q. stellata. 

 I find in the National Museum collection one female (Hopk. U. S. 

 14636") reared from a gall, determined by William Middleton as a 

 Oallirhytis sp., on Q. alba, at East Falls Church, Va., April 27, 1920. 

 It has the color and form of the typical querci-lanm, but departs 

 strangely in possessing a faint band on the wing. This is distinctly 

 narrower than the length of the marginal vein and more than twice 

 as long as broad. Such instances of the occasional occurrence of a 

 band on wings of a species typically lacking it are rare in material 

 accumulated to date. 



A single female (Hopk. U. S. 15639<^), reared by L. H. Weld. Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1922, at Oracle, Ariz., supposedly from a cynipid gall, on 



