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Packard, 1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm., pp. 107, 109. Dalla 
Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 44. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, 
Gen. Ins. Hymen. Cynip., p. 51. Beutenmuller, 1910, Bull. Amer. 
Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 123, pi. XI, fig. 4. Thompson, 1915, 
Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 19, 41. Felt, 1918, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 
200, p. 110, fig. 107 (4). 
Neuroterus quercus-minutissimus Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das 
Tierreich, XXIV, pp. 339, 814, 839. 
FEMALE. — Color generally piceous black; antennae light brown, 
entirely light basally; middles of femora dark brown, but legs otherwise 
including the coxae yellow; the areolet of less than moderate size or 
small; length 1.0-1. 2 mm. 
GALL. — Similar to the galls of the other varieties; of moderate 
size, the papilla swelling on the upper surface almost entirely absent 
(due to the thickness of the evergreen leaf?). On Quercus virginiana. 
RANGE. — Florida: Jacksonville (Ashmead) ; Lady Lake, Tavares, 
Bowling Green, Fort Meyers. Probably confined to the most southeast- 
ern part of the United States. 
TYPES. — Females and galls at the U.S. National Museum and the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Jacksonville, Florida; Q. vir- 
giniana; Ashmead collector. 
I have not seen types, but I have insects and galls deter- 
mined as this species by Ashmead, and insects I collected at 
Tavares, Florida. It may be that more than one variety is 
represented by the other localities I have listed. In the ma- 
terial I have seen the antenna has 13 segments, not 14 as 
Ashmead stated, and the areolet is not obliterated as origin- 
ally described but is small and bounded in part by a very faint 
vein. The insect is distinguished from restrictus by its 
smaller size, the large amount of yellow on the legs including 
the coxse, and the smaller areolet. 
Neuroterus verrucarum variety opacus, new variety 
FEMALE. — Color generally black, antennae dark brown, lighter 
only on the second segment; the middles of the coxae, femora, and tibiae 
very dark brown or brownish black, the legs otherwise rather light yel- 
low; wing veins quite fine; areolet averaging less than a moderate size; 
the first abscissa not as angulate as in inficiens; length 0. 7-1.0 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; averaging rather smaller than 
the galls of most varieties; on Quercus stellata and Q. breviloba. 
RANGE. — Texas: Yoakum, West Point, Elgin, Austin, Hearne, 
Jacksonville, Longview. Oklahoma: Pawnee. Probably thruout more 
eastern Texas and adjacent parts of Louisiana and Oklahoma. 
TYPES. — 368 females, no galls. Holotype female and paratype fe- 
males at The American Museum of Natural History; paratype females 
