Kinsey: Studies of Cynipidx 



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RANGE.— Texas: Austin (Patterson). 



TYPES. — 31 females, 2 males, 3 galls. Holotype female, paratjT^e 

 females, male, and gall in The American Museum of Natural History; 

 paratype adults and galls with the author; paratype females in the U.S. 

 National Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Phila- 

 delphia Academy. Labelled Austin, Texas, Q. breviloba, Patterson col- 

 lection number 46. 



Only two males were obtained among the fourteen adults, 

 but it is not unlikely that the sexes are usually more nearly 

 equal in number. Patterson reports the galls appearing early 

 in March, and the adults beginning to emerge March 15. 

 With such a short life history for this generation, another 

 form must occur in the remainder of the year. A bisexual 

 generation on such an evanescent part of the host usually 

 produces the alternate, agamic generation on some other part 

 of the same host, and Patterson has observed the females 

 ovipositing on the under sides of the leaves. The gall mate- 

 rial of the Patterson collection number 68 occurs on Q. 

 stellata ; it shows only a slightly greater degree of swelling 

 of the stems, but when the insects are obtained it may prove 

 a distinct variety confined to the single species of host. 



Neuroterus floricola, new species 



FEMALE. — Generally piceous, legs brownish and piceous; areolet 

 very small; length 1.0 mm. or slightly more. HEAD: Not as wide as 

 the thorax, not widened behind the eyes; black, the mouthparts yellow 

 with some piceous; very finely roughened, practically naked. Antennae 

 brownish black, hardly lighter basally, the second segment globose, the 

 third hardly longer than the fourth. THORAX: Piceous black, very 

 finely roughened, almost finely coriaceous ; parapsidal and median grooves 

 lacking, anterior parallel and lateral lines barely indicated as smoother, 

 slightly raised lines; scutellum about circular, with an arcuate depres- 

 sion basally; mesopleurse not wholly smooth. ABDOMEN: Piceous 

 black; smooth, naked; somewhat triangulate, produced dorsally about as 

 far as or somewhat farther than ventrally; ventral spine very short, 

 fine. LEGS: Brownish, the femora and hind tibiae piceous; tarsal claws 

 fine, simple. WINGS: Very long; clear; finely ciliate on the margins; 

 veins brown, mostly rather fine; areolet very small; radial cell long and 

 narrow, open, the second abscissa of the radius slightly curved; the first 

 abscissa distinctly angulate but without a projection. LENGTH: 1.0- 

 1.3 mm. 



MALE. — Difi'ers from the female as follows: Head golden yellow, 

 front brownish; antennae yellow basally; whole thorax light brownish; 

 abdomen brown, small, pedicellate; legs entirely golden yellow; areolet 

 rather small, but larger than in the female. 



