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634; 1833, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, XI, p. 142. Howard, 1888, 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., I, p. 41. 
Neuroterus saltatorius Ashmead, 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, 
p. 128. 1887, Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., suppl. vol., p. 179. 
Lintner, 1891 (in part), 7th Rpt. Inj. Ins. N.Y., p. 309. Dalla 
Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 46. Howard, 1905, Bull. U.S. Bur. 
Ent., 54, p. 81. Beutenmuller, 1910, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
XXVIII, p. 125, pi. XI, fig. 12 (not fig. 9). Fullaway, 1911, Ann. 
Ent. Soc. Amer., IV, p. 335. Thompson, 1915, Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 
18, 41. Felt, 1918 (in part), N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 200, p. 106, 
fig. 107 (12). Wells, 1921, Bot. Gaz., LXXI, p. 377, pi. XXII, fig. 23. 
McCracken and Egbert, 1922, Stanf. Univ. Publ., Ill (1), p. 9 
(except host records). 
Cynips saltatoria Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. Hymen. 
Cynip., p. 61; 1910, Das Tierreich, XXIV, p. 448. 
Cynips quercus-saltatrix Kellogg, 1904, Amer. Ins., figs. 666, 667. 
FEMALE. — Antennas dark brown, light brown basally; legs light 
yellow at the joints and on the tarsi; length 1.0-1. 5 mm. 
GALL. — Quite ellipsoidal, almost half again as long as wide, acicu- 
lately roughened, apically with a blunt tip which is slightly hairy; gall 
rather large; on Quercus lobata (and Q. Douglasii?) (figs. 27, 30, 31). 
RANGE. — California: Marysville (Aaron coll.); Stockton (acc. 
Calif. Acad. Proc.) ; Brentwood, Stanford University (McCracken) ; 
Diablo (Leach coll.) ; Sacramento (C. T. Dodds) ; Paso Robles, Exeter, 
Napa. Probably thruout Central California over the range of Q. lobata 
(and Q. Douglasii?). 
TYPES. — Of uncertain identity. Galls from the Edwards collec- 
tion at The American Museum of Natural History; insects and galls 
sent by Edwards to Riley and Ashmead at the U.S. National Museum; 
and material in the Bassett collection at the Philadelphia Academy may 
have come from Edwards; but it is not certain that any of this was 
actually used for the original description. The types came from the 
Wilder ranch, 8 miles from Marysville, California; on Q. lobata; F. W. 
H. Aaron collector; about 1873. 
The gall of this variety is a common object and is the best 
known of the several jumping galls. Edwards published the 
article in which he described the insect and gall in a news- 
paper, and because of its inaccessibility it is worth reprinting. 
Mr. Frank A. Leach, of Diablo, California, who has been 
interested in this species for a number of years, has located 
a file of the Pacific Rural Press and sends me the following 
copy (fig. 2). Mr. Leach has written an account of his obser- 
vations of the Neuroterus which will be published by 
The American Museum of Natural History in “Natural His- 
tory’'. Mr. Leach and Mr. Schwarz, editor of “Natural 
History”, have been cordial in their permission that I also 
