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uniformly so even on the elevated central portion and on the elevated 

 ridge to the mesonotum ; legs mostly bright brownish rufous, coxae 

 touched with piceous; areolet of moderate size. 



MALE. — Differs from the male of the other variety as follows: 

 Mandibles dark rufous brown; legs mostly bright rufous, with the tarsi 

 darker and the coxae wholly piceous; wings distinctly smoky in the radial 

 cell but less so than in the female; areolet small. 



GALL. — Superficially resembles the gall of the other variety, but is 

 distinct as follows: Filaments finer, more dense and curled; often a 

 hundred or more larval cells in a cluster, the cells thoroly fused together, 

 forming a perfectly solid, woody mass; galls averaging large, often up 

 to. 45. mm. in diameter. 



RANGE. — Oregon: Corvallis (Beutenmuller) ; Ashland. 



TYPES. — In the Beutenmuller collection (?) , and at the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. From Corvallis, Oregon; B. G. Thompson, col- 

 lector. 



The above descriptions were made from material I col- 

 lected at Ashland. Of 85 adults, 39 are males. Beutenmuller 

 states that galls collected in December gave adults from late 

 February to the middle of March, indoors. Most of the adults 

 had not yet emerged from the galls collected at Ashland on 

 April 6. 



Diplolepis bassetti variety lucida, new variety 



FEMALE. — Dift'ers from the female of the other variety as follows: 

 Eyes distinctly protruding beyond the cheeks; scutellum closely rugose, 

 only finely rugose and distinctly shining on the elevated central portion 

 and on the elevated ridge to the mesonotum; legs bright brownish rufous, 

 the coxae, trochanters, and a small part of the femora piceous; areolet 

 very large. 



MALE. — Differs from the male of the other variety as follows: 

 Mandibles light yellow rufous; the scutellum almost without the smoother 

 area of the female of this variety; the legs generally darker, the coxae, 

 trochanters, and a large part of the femora piceous; wings almost clear, 

 almost entirely clear in the radial cell; areolet large but not as large 

 as in the female of this variety. 



GALL. — Superficially resembles the gall of the other variety, but is 

 distinct as follows: Filaments heavier, broader, straighter; usually only 

 30 or fewer larval cells in a cluster, each cell more or less entirely sep- 

 arate, with a proximate origin from the stem, the cells com.pacted into 

 an insecure mass more by the intertwining filaments than by a fusion of 

 the wood of each cell; the whole mass averaging smaller than in the 

 other variety, 25. mm. the maximum diameter noted. 



RANGE. — Oregon: La Grande. Idaho: Mountain Home. 



TYPES.— 115 females, 83 males, 36 galls. Holotype female, para- 

 type adults, and galls in The American Museum of Natural History; 

 paratype adults and galls at Stanford University, the U.S. National 

 Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Philadelphia Academy, 



