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Attached by only a slight point to twigs (bud galls) of Quercus Doug- 

 hisii. 



RANGE.— California: Oroville, Three Rivers. 



TYPES. — 16 females, 10 males, and 48 galls; adults all imperfect. 

 Holotype female, paratype adults, and galls in The American Museum 

 of Natural History; paratype adults and galls at Stanford University, 

 the U.S. National Museum, and wath the author. Labelled Oroville, 

 California; April 1, 1920; Kinsey collector. 



Some of the galls at Oroville contained pupae on April 1, 

 while an equal number showed adults or exit holes thru 

 which adults had already emerged. The whole life of this 

 generation must be a month or so, with an alternate, probably 

 agamic generation in the rest of the year. Of 40 adults I 

 have, 14 are males. The species is not entirely unlike 

 Dryophanta pidchelki Beutenmuller, of which the male and 

 gall are unknown, but the two species are distinct enough. 



Andricus spectabilis Kinsey 



FEMALE. — Head and thorax black, densely hairy; abdomen rufous; 

 areolet very large; cubitus not continuous; average length 4.5 mm. 

 HEAD: Dark piceous to black, mandibles rufous; about as broad as 

 the thorax, broadened behind the eyes; very finely coriaceous, punctate 

 and hairy, dense with long hairs on the face, naked just lateral to the 

 eyes; face with rugose striae radiating from the mouth. Antennas 

 rufous brown to piceous; first segments and apical segTnents darker; 

 hairy; with 14 (or 15) segments. THORAX: Black, piceous to black 

 on the sides; mesonotum very finely coriaceous, closely punctate and 

 densely hairy, ^^dth long hairs; parapsidal gi'ooves distinct, punctate, 

 slightly convergent at the scutellum, slightly divergent at the pronotum ; 

 median groove distinct and smooth for a short distance from the scutel- 

 lum, obsolete forward; anterior parallel lines raised, smooth, extending 

 from the scutellum about half the mesonotal length; scutellum black, 

 longer than wide, deeply rugose, depressed on the median lines, with 

 two large, shining, smooth or rugose, laterally-spreading fovese at the 

 base separated by a fine ridge; mesopleurse piceous or black, in part 

 coriaceous, almost naked of hairs. ABDOMEN: Rufous to piceous, 

 brightest at the very base and apically, especially ventrally; practically 

 smooth, the posterior segments, the ventral spine, and the valves with 

 long hairs; only a few, scattering, long hairs at the base of the second 

 segment laterally; longer than wide, the second segment covering less 

 than one-third of the total area, the third seg-ment fully as long as the 

 second, the hypopygium projecting slightly posteriorly; ventral spine 

 very short, heavy, and blunt. LEGS: Yellow brown to rufous, the 

 coxae and sometimes trochanters black; hairy, hairs densest and longest 

 on the tarsi and on the hind tibiae; claws prominently toothed. WINGS: 

 Hyaline, tinged with yellowish, covered with fine, brown hairs, edges 

 ciliate; veins brown, heavy, cross veins heaviest; areolet very large, 



