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type females and galls at the U.S. National Museum and in the Kinsey 
collection; paratype galls at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the 
Philadelphia Academy. Labelled Leander, Texas; December 12, 1919; 
Q. breviloba; Kinsey collector. 
Inficiens is the most distinct variety of the species, with 
the exception of the related pulvinus. This is typical of the 
distinct fauna which occurs in the area of the old Llano uplift. 
The angle of the first abscissa of the radius, and the closely 
imbedded gall would even somewhat suggest a distinct species. 
The gall, and to some extent the insect, come near variety 
pulvinus. Galls which I collected in early December still 
contained larvae ; Dr. Patterson cut out adults from galls 
collected at Austin on December 29. 
Neuroterus verrucarum variety macrocarpae, new variety 
FEMALE. — Color generally black; antennae dark brown, distinctly 
brownish yellow on all the basal segments; middles of coxae, femora, 
and tibiae dark brown; areolet averaging a little smaller than a moder- 
ate size. 
GALL. — As described for the species; averaging slightly larger 
than galls of variety opaciis; on Quercus macrocarpa. 
RANGE. — Texas: Austin (Patterson). Oklahoma: Pawnee. Prob- 
ably occurs thruout more eastern Texas and adjacent parts of Louis- 
iana and Oklahoma. 
TYPES. — 23 females, 6 pins of galls. Holotype female, para- 
type females, and gall at The American Museum of Natural His- 
tory; paratype females and galls at the U.S. National Museum, the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Philadelphia Academy, and in 
the Kinsey collection. Labelled Austin, Texas; 1922; Q. macrocarpa; 
Patterson collection number 135. 
Altho this variety occurs in the same range as opacus, 
it is readily distinguished by the brownish yellow bases of 
the antennge. Dr. Patterson collected and bred the type ma- 
terial; he reports galls appearing the first of August, with 
the pupal stage occurring on November 2, and females emerg- 
ing from March 23 to 31, 1922. Most, but not all of the 
insects had previously emerged from galls which I collected 
at Pawnee, Oklahoma, on April 28, 1920. 
Neuroterus verrucarum variety minutissimus (Ashmead) 
Cynij)s q. minutissima Ashmead, 1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, 
p. VII. 
Neuroterus minutissimus Ashmead, 1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, 
p. 296; 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, p. 128. Ashmead in 
