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at all separable; cell located below the mid-point of the gall but not at 

 the very base. On twigs of Querctis breviloba. 



RANGE. — Texas: Austin (Patterson); Round Rock, Leander. 



TYPES. — 18 females, 19 galls. Holotype female, paratype females, 

 and galls at The American Museum of Natural History; paratype 

 females and galls at Stanford University, the U.S. National Museum, 

 and with the author. Labelled Austin, Texas; Q. breviloba; Patterson 

 collector. 



The gall of this cynipid has been known to me for several 

 years, but previously I have not had the adult. I am glad to 

 be able to name this for Dr. Patterson who successfully reared 

 the insect. In 1921 Dr. Patterson found young galls on July 

 28, mature galls on August 29, pupse by October 21, mature 

 adults in the galls by November 5, and emerging adults on De- 

 cember 12. I collected galls in abundance on December 6 and 

 8, 1919, at Round Rock and Leander, not far north of Austin, 

 but all of the adults had emerged previously. Emergence 

 dates must vary considerably with the development of the 

 seasons in different years. 



This is probably a variety of Disholccispis bassetti Gillette, 

 but until I can see the types and more material of bassetti I 

 cannot be certain of the relationships of pattersoni. 



Dishoicaspis simuiata, new species 



FEMALE. — Rufous to black; parapsidal grooves, anterior parallel, 

 and lateral lines distinct; thorax hairy, abdomen mostly naked; areolet 

 large. HEAD : Much narrower than the thorax, widened behind the 

 eyes; rufous browm or darker to black; roughly granulose, or finely but 

 roughly rugose, all but the vertex hairy with long hairs. Antennae 

 bright rufous brown to rufous black; entirely hairy; (13-) 14-jointed, 

 the second segment almost globose, the third longest but hardly longer 

 than the fourth, the last approaching twice the length of the preceding. 

 THORAX: Broad, rufous to black, mesonotum practically smooth, 

 closely punctate, rather densely covered with long hairs; parapsidal 

 grooves distinct, deep, smooth, naked, fairly broad at the scutellum, nar- 

 rowing and continuous anteriorly for half the length of the mesonotum; 

 median groove absent; anterior parallel lines distinct, smooth, naked, 

 extending half way to the scutellum ; lateral lines distinct, smooth, naked, 

 half the length of the mesonotum ; scutellum cushion-shaped, rugoso- 

 punctate, densely hairy, depressed anteriorly, with two oblique, shallow 

 fovese: pronotum finely punctate, hairy; mesopleurse entirely punctate 

 and hairy. ABDOMEN: Rufous to piceous black; smooth, shining, 

 naked, except for distinct patches of hairs latero-basally and the hair 

 on the ventral spine; as high as long, not produced dorsally; hj'popygium 

 produced, ventral spine prominent but not long, ventral valves at an 



