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Types. — ^U.S.N.M. 60123 : Type and six paratypes. Paratypes in 

 A.M.N.H. and C.M.N.H. 



Host. — Quercus myrtifolia. 



Gall. — Cells under the bark producing, where numerous, a more or 

 less hypertrophied twig. Similar to gall of Callirhytis crypta 

 (Ashmead). 



Habitat. — Type locality Carrabelle, Fla. Living adults were cut 

 out of the galls on November 17, 1929. Galls collected 2 weeks 

 previously. 



Genus BASSETTIA Ashmead 



BASSETTIA FLORIDANA Ashmead 



Bassettia floridana Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, p. 147, 1887. 

 Dryophanta corrugis Bassett, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 17, p. 71, 1890 (new 

 synonymy). 



The types of Dryophanta corrugis in the Bassett collection in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia agree with Ashmead's 

 ■floridana. 



Genus DRYOCOSMUS Giraud 



DRYOCOSMUS GRUMATUS, new species 



Female. — Red, often with black on occiput, anterior and lateral 

 lines, mesopleura, and dorsal abdomen. Head granulate ; from above 

 transverse, cheeks slightly broadened behind eyes, antennae filiform, 

 14-segmented. Mesoscutum smooth and polished, parapsidal grooves 

 deep, smooth, percurrent, median wanting. Scutellum longer than 

 broad, coriaceous behind the shallow pits, rugose peripherally. Meso- 

 pleuron almost bare, faintly striate in center. Wing pubescent and 

 ciliate, veins brown, areolet small, cubitus reaching basal, radial cell 

 four times as long as broad. Tarsal claws simple. Abdomen in side 

 view as high as long, not gibbous below petiole, all tergites showing 

 on dorsal margin. Ventral spine nine times as long as broad, longer 

 than hind metatarsus. Length 2.15-2.75 mm. Average 2.3 mm. De- 

 scribed from eight specimens, all imperfect. 



Types. — U.S.N.M. No. 60124: Type and two paratypes. Another 

 paratype is in C.A.S. 



Host. — Quercus wislizeni. 



Gall (pi. 16, fig. 3). — A smooth, bare, ellipsoidal gall about 3 mm. 

 in diameter attached to midrib on under side of the leaf in the fall 

 and bearing a little fleshy knob on its summit exactly like the gall of 

 Hleyi (Aslimead) in the eastern United States. 



Habitat. — Rex Hunt collected a lot of galls in the fall of 1949 at 

 Felton, Calif., and placed them in a wire breeding cage outdoors on 



