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in the U.S. National Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
the Philadelphia Academy, and the Kinsey collection. Labelled Austin, 
Texas; March 27, 1922; Q. stellata; Patterson collection number 108. 
Dr. Patterson collected the fine lot of type material, breed- 
ing the insects about March 27, 1922. 
In 1919 I collected galls in the latter half of November and 
the first half of December at the various localities listed ; the 
insects were larvae at that time and were large enough to 
mature after collection. This is the common variety of the 
species in eastern Texas. Dr. Patterson has bred a few adults 
from galls on hreviloba, and I do not find that these differ 
from the Q. stellata types. A very distinct variety, inficiens, 
also occurs on Q. breviloba at Austin, and should be distin- 
guished from opacus. The two varieties occupy very different 
faunal areas which meet at Austin. The galls of variety 
pidvinus also occur on Q. stellata, and are readily separated, 
but the two insects are practically indistinguishable, as pointed 
out under pulvimis. 
Neuroterus verrucarum variety pernotus, new variety 
Neuroterus floccosus Beutenmuller, 1892, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
IV, p. 262, pi. XII, fig. 2; 1904, Amer. Mus. Journ., IV, p. 108, fig. 
43; 1904, Amer. Mus. Guide Leaf., 16, p. 22, fig. 43; 1910 (in larger 
part). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 123, pi. XI, fig. 
1-3. Beutenmuller in Smith, 1910 (in part). Ins. N.J., p. 598. Steb- 
bins, 1910, Springfield Mus. Bull., 2, p. 30. Thompson, 1915 (New 
England record), Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 13, 40, pi. 2, fig. 103. Viereck, 
1916, Hymen. Conn., p. 390. Lutz, 1918, Fieldbook of Ins., p. 462, pi. 
XCVII, fig. 6. Britton, 1920, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. 
Bull., 31, p. 320. 
FEMALE. — Color generally dark piceous, in small part rufo-pice- 
ous; antennas rather dark brown, brownish yellow basally; middles of 
coxae, femora, and tibiai rufo-brown; areolet averaging a little less than 
a moderate size; length 0. 7-1.1 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; larger than the galls of other 
varieties; on Quercus bicolor. 
EANGE. — Massachusetts: Worcester? (Thompson coll.); Boston 
(Clarke); Springfield (Stebbins) ; Forest Hills. Connecticut: Waterbury 
(in Bassett collection); New Haven (Felt in N.Y. State Mus.). New 
York: New York City (Beutenmuller). New Jersey: Broadway, Carmel. 
Probably confined to a northeastern area of the United States. 
TYPES, — 32 females, 12 pins of galls. Holotype female, para- 
type females, and galls at the Boston Society of Natural History; 
paratype females and galls at The American Museum of Natural His- 
