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this is a bisexual form, starting growth with the unfolding 
of the buds and maturing in May or June. 
Neuroterus vemus variety evanescens Kinsey 
bisexual form 
Neuroterus evanescens Kinsey, 1922, Ind. Univ. Studies, 53, p. 100. 
FEMALE. — Mouthparts straw yellowish; antennae wholly light 
straw yellow; abdomen longer than wide, extending ventrally as far as 
or slightly further than dorsally; legs light straw brown at the joints 
and on the tarsi; radial cell not as long and narrow as is usual in the 
species; length 0. 7-1.0 mm. 
MALE. — As described for the species. 
GALL. — A swelling of the ament stem, forming a mass about 5. 
mm. long; on aments of Quercus breviloba. 
EANGE. — Texas: Austin. 
TYPES. — 31 females, 2 males, S galls. Holotype female, para- 
type females, male, and gall in The American Museum of Natural 
History; paratype females, male, and galls in the Kinsey collection; 
paratype females in the U.S. National Museum, the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, and the Philadelphia Academy. Labelled Austin, 
Texas; Q. breviloba; Patterson collection number 68. 
A couple of corrections should be made in the data I 
originally published with this insect. The types should bear 
the Patterson number 68 ; the galls appeared about March 19, 
and the adults began emerging April 4, 1922. Patterson 
observed the insects ovipositing on the under sides of leaves, 
and since the variety is so closely related to the varieties 
which produce leaf vein swellings, there is little doubt that 
the agamic generation will be found in such a gall. The 
Patterson material occurring on Q, stellata should be num- 
bered 46. This may represent a distinct variety. 
Neuroterus vernus variety exiguus Bassett 
bisexual form 
Neuroterus exiguus Bassett, 1900, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXVI, p. 
333. Dalla 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. 129. Beutenmuller 
in Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J., p. 598. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, 
Das Tierreich, XXIV, pp. 333, 823, 834. Thompson, 1915, Amer. 
Ins. Galls, pp. 20, 40. Viereck, 1916, Hymen. Conn., p. 389. Brit- 
ton, 1920, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull., 31, p. 320. Cres- 
son, 1923, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XLVIII, p. 199. 
