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above therefore subreotunjxular-ovate, surfaces modorately and iii- 

 cons])icuously hairy, finely wrinkled and with occasional shallow 

 unihilicato punctures, more or less of vertex minutely and shallowly 

 pitted, one female with a few umbilicate punctures in ocellar area, 

 mnhir sjiace smooth and bare; ])edicel one-sixth lonj^er than Fl, 

 joints F2 and F.'^ about ocjual, one-lifth louijer than wide, F4 and 

 F5 slightly shorter but a little thicker than the preceding, and oidy 

 a little longer than broad; head slightly broader than mesothorax, 

 atul both these distinctly broader than pronotum; 113 to 15 setae on 

 submarginal vein; abdomen very finely and uniforndy granulose, 

 except first segment and venter, which are in part polished, smooth; 

 sparsely to moderately hairy posteriorly. 



Male. — Size, vestiture, sculpturing, and color as described for 

 fenuile, exce])t that mesothorax is light brownish yellow, the scu- 

 tcllum partly black as in the female to wholly concolorous with 

 prescutum, and propodeum almost entirely like the mesothorax to 

 black as in the female, nnd in one specimen the groove also black; 

 Fl as long as pedicel and a foiu'th longer than F2, F2 to F4 broad- 

 ening and shortening slightly toward club. 



Type localit]/. — Austin, Tex. 



Type.~¥Q\\vAV\ U.S.N.M. X(». 42234. 



Remarkii. — Described from the tyi)e, allotype, and two female 

 and two male paratypes. the type and allotype in the collection of 

 the United States National Museum, the rest in the writer's coUec- 

 ti«>n. These were reared by Dr. A. C Kinsey from the galls of 

 Disholcosph cinerosa (Bassett) on live oak {Quercus virylniana) 

 collected in the type locality. The gall makers issued December 4, 

 1910. Some wings and antennae of both sexes are on slides. In 

 the collection of the National Museinn are four females and one 

 male on slender pins with label " Texas, Belfrage."' The hind edge 

 of the submarginal band is not so much produced as in the type 

 specimens. It is also represented by several Hopkins lots, as follows : 

 Two females (^Hopk. U. S. 1563?>)' September 20, 1922, reared by 

 L. H. Weld, presumably from galls on Q. punyens, at Tijeras, N. 

 Mox.: 3 females (Hopk. IT. S. 15()37'>). reared by Weld. October 2. 

 1022. from the same locality and oak. and the gall is an undescribed 

 Disholcaspis (determined Weld) : 1 female and 2 males (Hopk. U. S. 

 15604'*). by Wold. Prescott, Ariz., April 25 and 30, and May 8 (1 

 female). 1018. presumably from galls, on Q. grisca or Q. arlzonica 

 (evergreen oaks) ; 9 females and 3 males (Hopk. U. S. 15604"^), L. H. 

 Weld, Prescott. Ariz., May 15 to August 1. 1018, from galls of Call'i- 

 rhytis ruginoaun (Bassett) on Q. grhea and Q. arizonica; 2 females 

 and 1 male (Hopk. U. S. 13687-=) reared July 12, 1918, from galls 

 determined by Weld as Adleria. on Q. ohJongifolm, at Esparara 

 Canon, Ariz.; and 1 male (Hopk. V. S. 107 73''), reared June 11, 1019, 



