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Ins. N.J., p. 598. Felt, 1918 (in part), N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 
200, pp. 88, 110, 112. 
FEMALE. — Apparently (from the description) has the color gen- 
erally black, the antennae with the basal segments black or dark brown, 
the areolet large, and the length 1.2 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; much smaller than for other 
varieties, more often confined to the midvein; on Quercus alba. 
RANGE. — Massachusetts: Amherst (Bassett) ; Springfield (Steb- 
bins). Rhode Island: Providence (Thompson). Connecticut: Waterbury 
(Bassett). Probably confined to a more northeastern area of the United 
States. 
TYPES. — Holotype female, paratype females, and galls at the 
Philadelphia Academy; paratype females and galls at The American 
Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
and in the Beutenmuller (?) collection. From Waterbury, Connecticut; 
Q. alba; Bassett collector. 
This variety is not as common as that on Q. hicolor. The 
gall is distinct in its small size and confinement largely to 
the midveins. This probably represents not a distinct insect 
physiology as much as a difference in plant structure. It 
is not to be expected that the smooth leaf of Q. alba should 
produce as woolly a gall as the normally pubescent Q. bicolor. 
Beutenmuller made this a synonym of true floccosus, which 
it certainly is not. The synonomy has been followed by some 
others, and the unscrambling of the bibliographic references 
is consequently confusing. I have galls, but have not seen 
insects, and draw the description from Bassett’s original 
account. 
Neuroterus verriicarum variety floccosus (Bassett) 
Cynips floccosa Bassett, 1881, Can. Ent., XIII, p. 111. Packard, 1881, 
U.. S. Ent. Comm. Bull., VII, p. 57. Cresson, 1923, Trans. Amer. 
Ent. Soc., XLVIII, p. 199. 
Neuroterus floccosus Mayr, 1881, Gen. Gallenbew. Cynip., p, 37. Bas- 
sett, 1882, Amer. Nat., XVI, p. 246. Ashmead, 1885, Trans. Amer, 
Ent. Soc., XII, pp. 296, 303; 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, 
p. 128. Ashmead in Packard, 1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm., 
pp. 107, 109. Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 41. Dalla 
Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. Hymen. Cynip., p. 51; 1910, 
Das Tierreich, XXIV, pp. 337, 814. Beutenmuller, 1910 (in small 
part). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 123. Thompson, 
1915 (in part), Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 13, 40. Felt, 1918 (in part), 
N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 200, pp. 88, 110, 112, fig. 107 (1-3). Wells, 
1921, Bot. Gaz., LXXI, p. 377, pi. XXII, fig. 21. 
