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muller says the galls are to be found in May. Probably other 
tissues are affected, and other forms of galls produced, as 
well as those now described. 
The name pallipes which Bassett first applied to this insect 
is preoccupied by Neuroterus pallipes Schenck, 1862, and 
Daila Torre substituted the name hassettii for our insect. 
In doing so he referred to the Bassett insect as pallidipes, 
by mistake. It is true that the Schenck insect is not a 
Neuroterus, but as long as pallipes had ever been previously 
published in combination with Neuroterus, that name is un- 
available for any other insect. Beutenmuller and subsequent 
authors are in error in considering pallipes still available for 
Bassett’s insect. 
Neuroterus vernus variety distortus Bassett 
bisexual form 
Neuroterus distortus Bassett, 1900, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXVI, p. 
336. Daila Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. Hymen. Cynip., p. 
51. Beutenmuller, 1904, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XX, p. 26; 
1910, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 127, pi. XII, fig. 6. 
Beutenmuller in Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J., p. 599. Daila Torre and 
Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich, XXIV, pp. 334, 801, 827. Thompson, 
1915, Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 5, 40, pi. 1, fig. 178. Viereck, 1916, 
Hymen. Conn., p. 388. Felt, 1918, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 200, p. 
56, fig. 53 (6). Britton, 1920, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. 
Bull., 31, p. 320. Cresson, 1923, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XLVIII, 
p. 198. 
FEMALE. — Mouthparts piceous; antennse dark brown, basally 
straw color, abdomen higher than long, not produced; legs light straw 
at the joints and on the tarsi; areolet quite large; radial cell rather 
narrow; length 0.9-1.2 mm. 
MALE. — As described for the species. 
GALL. — A slight swelling of the bud or young leaf, petiole or vein; 
on Quercus bicolor. 
RANGE. — Connecticut: Waterbury (?). New York, New Jersey 
(Beutenmuller). Probably confined to a more northeastern part of the 
United States. 
TYPES. — Females, males, and galls, Holotype female at the Phil- 
adelphia Academy; paratype females, males, and galls at the Philadel- 
phia Academy, The American Museum of Natural History, and the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in the Beutenmuller collection (?). 
From Waterbury (?) Connecticut; May 25, 1893; Q. bicolor; Bassett 
collector. 
This insect is closely related to variety tectus, but is ap- 
parently due to isolation upon the distinct host. Like tectus, 
