Kinsey: The Genus Neuroterus 
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FEMALE. — Color generally piceous black; antennae a rather dark 
brown, brownish yellow on all the basal segments; middles of coxae, 
femora, and tibiae rather dark brown; areolet averaging a little more 
than a moderate size; length 1.0-1. 5 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; averaging rather large; on 
Quercus bicolor. 
RANGE. — Ohio: northern (Bassett). Illinois? (Beutenmuller) . 
Probably confined to a northern portion of the Middle West. 
TYPES. — Females and galls. Holotype female, paratype females, 
and galls at the Philadelphia Academy; paratype females and galls 
at The American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, and in the Beutenmuller (?) and the Kinsey collec- 
tions. From northern Ohio; Q. hicolor; Bassett collector. The “types” 
include quantities of material of variety pernotus. 
1 have examined 203 insects from the Bassett ‘"type” ma- 
terial at the Philadelphia Academy; of these, only 41 are 
true floccosus while 162 represent variety pernotus, probably 
from Q. hicolor at Waterbury, Connecticut. As is well known, 
it was often Bassett’s custom to place all of his material of 
a species in a single box, and apparently this happened in 
the case of floccosus. Of the two varieties among the Bassett 
types, one agrees in its dark colorings, larger size of areolet, 
and greater length with the Bassett description of material 
from northern Ohio; the other does not agree with the de- 
scription of floccosus and does agree with types of pernotus 
which is a New England variety. Very likely Bassett obtained 
his pernotus material near Waterbury, Connecticut. The 
northern Ohio material must stand as floccosus even tho it 
is not as abundant among the Bassett “types”. 
Neuroterus verrucarum variety inficiens, new variety 
FEMALE. — Color generally jet black; antennae rich brown, only a 
slightly lighter brown basally, the middles of the coxae, femora, and 
tibiae rich brown, not black, the legs otherwise rich golden yellow ; areolet 
rather large; wing veins quite heavy, the first abscissa more angulatc 
than in other varieties; length 1.0-1. 5 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; rather small, more flattened, 
and much more solidly imbedded in the leaf than in other varieties, 
and the papilla on the upper surface is not as large ; on Quercus 
hreviloha. 
RANGE. — Texas: Austin (Patterson collection 110); Leander, 
Round Rock. Probably confined to a limited area in Texas including 
Burnet and Llano Counties. 
TYPES. — 6 females^ 22 pins of galls. Holotype female, paratype 
female, and galls at The American Museum of Natural History; para- 
