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Cynips q. verrucarum Osten Sacken, 1861, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, pp. 409, 412. 
Cynips verrucarum Osten Sacken, 1865, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., IV, pp. 
340, 344, 348, 354. Packard, 1881, U.S. Ent. Comm. Bull., VII, 
p. 56. 
Neuroterus verrucarum Ashmead, 1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, 
pp. 296, 304; 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, p. 128. Ashmead 
in Packard, 1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm., p. 110. Dalla Torre, 
1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 47. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. 
Ins. Hymen. Cynip., p. 51. Beutenmuller, 1910 (in part). Bull. 
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 122, pi. XI, fig”. 5. Thompson, 
1915, Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 18, 41 (not p. 61, not pi. 16, fig. 271). 
Felt, 1918, N.Y. State Mus. Bull., 200, p. 106, fig. 107 (5). 
Neuroterus quercus-verrucarntm Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910 (except 
Florida record). Das Tierreich, XXIV, pp. 336, 815, 834. 
FEMALE. — Color generally black; antennae brown, dull brownish 
straw color basally; middles of coxae, femora, and tibiae brownish black; 
areolet of moderate size; length 1.0-1. 2 mm. 
GALL. — As described for the species; rather small; on Quercus 
stellata. 
RANGE. — D.C.: Washington. Virginia: Indian Rock. Probably 
confined to a southeastern area of the United States north of southern 
Georgia. 
TYPES. — Female and gall types at the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology. From near Washington, D.C.; Q. stellata; Osten Sacken col- 
lector. 
My redescriptions are from material I collected at In- 
dian Rock, Virginia. The more northern (Beutenmuller, 
1910) and the Florida (Ashmead, 1887) records of ver- 
rucarum probably apply to undescribed varieties, and there 
is not much possibility of the Connecticut macrocarpa records 
(Viereck, 1916) applying to this variety. 
Neuroterus subgenus Dolichostrophus Ashmead 
Dolichostrophus Ashmead, 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, p. 129; 
1903, Psyche, X, p. 151. Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen., 11. p. 37. 
Neuroterus (in part) Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Insec. Hymen. 
Cynip., p. 50; 1910, Das Tierreich, XXIV, p. 307. 
FEMALE. — Eyes of moderate size; cheeks narrow, more or less 
slightly protruding beyond the eyes; malar space rather narrow with a 
distinct but shallow furrow; head in large part black; face more or 
less hairy; antennae with 13 (14 in dubius) segments, the third half 
again to twice as long as the fourth; thorax black, piceous laterally, 
only a little longer than to twice as long as high or wide; mesonotum 
smooth to faintly coriaceous, naked of hairs or minutely hairy, without 
traces of lines or grooves; scutellum rounded, a little longer than wide, 
naked or hairy; mesopleurae finely roughened; abdomen piceous and 
