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Light brown, budlike, thin-shelled, marginal leaf gall covered with short wool, 

 length 2 to 3 mm, on Q. alba. Fig. 53, 12, 13. Beutm. 'loc, p. 132 



Cynipid. Neuroterus clarkeae Beutm. 

 Globose, brown-haired, clustered vein galls, each monothalamous, diameter 

 2.5 mm on upper surface, usually two or three in a cluster and not showing on 

 the lower surface. 



Cynipid. Neuroterus sp. a2762 



(b) Small, seedlike cells in groups and covered by wool 



Woolly, whitish, mass on the under side of the leaves, usually along the midrib, 

 diameter 9 mm, containing a mass of small, monothalamous cells, on Q. a 1 b a, 

 Q. m a c r o c a r p a, Q. 1 o b a t a. PL i, fig. 2. Walsh '64, p. 482 



Cynipid. Andricus flocci Walsh 

 Globose leaf gall, smooth above, thickly covered with white wool beneath, 

 singly or confluent, diameter 1.5 to 3.5 mm, on Q. alba, Q. p 1 a t a n o i d e s. 

 Fig. 107, 1-3. Beutm. 'loc, p. 123 



Cynipid. Oak flake gall, Neuroterus floccosus Bass. 

 Small, flattened, circular or irregular tufts of rather long, whitish or reddish 

 wool covering two to six irregular, brown, seedlike kernels, usually on the 

 under surface, diameter 1.8 to 2 mm. Ashm. '81, p. XIII 



Cynipid. Andricus lanigera Ashm. 

 Clustered, larval cells along the midvein, the cells hidden in short, dense, 

 brownish wool, the largest clusters often more than half the length of the 

 leaf, on Q. o b t u s i 1 o b a. Bassett '81, p. 98 



Cynipid. Andricus p a t t o n i Bass. 

 Oval, rather thick-shelled, brown leaf vein gall, at first woolly, later naked, 

 length 3 mm, diameter 1.5 mm, on Q. p 1 a t a n o i d e s. Fig. 99, 10. Beutm. 

 'iid, p. 359 



Cynipid. Dryophanta ignota Bass. 

 White or bufif-colored, woolly masses attached to the principal veins on the under 

 side of the leaves, on Q. a 1 b a. PI. i, fig. 4. Felt '06b, p. 625 



Cynipid. Oak wool gall, Andricus lana Fitch 



Monothalamous, clustered, hard, woody, subcylindrical, wedge-shaped or 



subtriangular leaf galls, each densely covered with short, coarse, whitish 



woolly fibers, the cluster appearing as one large gall, on Q. minor. Beutm. 



'o9f, p. 248 



Cynipid. Andricus texanus Beutm. 

 Subdiscoidal leaf gall, diameter 3.5 to 5 mm and with whitish gray, transparent, 

 radiating hairs; on the opposite surface a discolored depression with a diameter 

 of I mm. Mex. Trotter '11, p. 130 



Cynipid. Neuroterus bonanseae Trott. 

 Button-shaped, golden-yellow haired, vein gall, diameter 10 to 20 mm and con- 

 sisting of a number of cells, each with a diameter of 3.5 mm and sometimes 

 of 10 mm. Mex. Trotter '11, p. 124 



Cynipid. Philonix comata Trott. 



(c) Cells large, not seedlike Ijut clustered under wool as before 

 Globose, kernel-like leaf galls occurring singly or in clusters and covered with 

 long, loose, fawn-colored wool, diameter of kernel 2 to 2.5 mm, on Q. 1 a u r i - 

 folia, Q. imbricaria. Fig. 107, 7, 8. Beutm. 'loc, p. 130 



Cynipid . Neuroterus laurifoliae Ash m 



