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into a margined groove in the body, ovipositor itself flesh color, curved 
inwardly toward its middle. The abdomen is six jointed. Terminal 
joint of palpi hatchet shaped. Tarsi very hairy thruout, the anterior 
pair with six and the remainder with seven joints. Coxae very globose. 
Tibiae long, with large and powerful spines at the base. 
The Edwards description and figure are inaccurate, for 
saltatorius does not have the “antennae, 14 jointed” nor the 
“thorax densely but finely punctured”, and the wing venation 
in the figure is incorrect for any cynipid. The gall figured 
suggests a flattened sphere with a central depression basally 
containing the conical point of attachment, and these char- 
acters are not found in saltatorius galls. I have questioned 
whether Edwards really had a Neuroterus. Mr. Weld, at the 
U.S. National Museum, has kindly gone into the matter in 
detail, and we conclude that the amount of authenticated 
material from Edwards, and the uniformity of interpreta- 
tion by the earlier workers definitely fixes the Edwards de- 
scription with the lohata insect. Galls in the American Mu- 
seum are from the Edwards collection and come near being 
types, and the Beutenmuller' 1910 description was made from 
an insect cut from these galls. 
The variety occurs most commonly on Quercus lohata; 
a very similar gall, possibly of the same variety, occurs less 
often on Q. Douglasii, but I have not secured insects and can- 
not be sure of the relationships. The records for other hosts, 
as previously pointed out, apply to other varieties. Riley 
was wrong in considering the eastern United States material 
identical. Beutenmuller (1910) made the correction, but he 
did include a figure of a Connecticut, Quercus alba specimen 
(plate XI, hg. 9). 
It is not clear at what season Aaron collected the type 
material, but the California Academy had previously seen 
galls (as Mr. Weld points out to me) which were about mature 
and dropped to the ground in August. Material in the Stan- 
ford and University of California collections was collected 
in August and in September as late as September 24. No 
one, apparently, has ever secured a male of this species, and 
I fail to find any males in the material collected in September 
and sent me from the Stanford collection by Dr. McCracken 
or in the material sent by Professor Essig and Mr. Dodds 
of the University of California. This amounts only to nega- 
