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of pubescentis on Q. pedunculata in Holland must surely apply 
to the variety folii. Kieffer (1901: 636) similarly questioned 
this record. I also question Hedicke’s record (1915) for 
Mark Brandenburg in more northern Germany. Bagnall and 
Harrison (1918, Ent. Month. Mag. 54: 181, and Ent. Record 
30 : 157) say that this variety occurs in Durham, the 
Derwent Valley, Winlaton, Ovingham, Dipton Woods in 
Northumberland, and Corb ridge, all of which are localities in 
northern England. They found both agamic and bisexual 
galls, describing the latter as “green or more or less red, 
furnished with long, curly pubescence, mostly of a bright red 
to purplish-red colour.” This description fits flosculi so well 
that it invites further investigation, but I still cannot accept 
records which are nearly eight hundred miles outside of the 
proved range of this insect, and which seem to be based on 
galls alone. Insects from all such unusual material must be 
carefully compared with series of Mediterranean material 
before we may be certain of determinations of such closely 
related cynipids as folii and flosculi. 
Mayr (1882) referred to pubescentis as (translating) 
“Apparently the agamic form of D. flosculi Giraud.” As far 
as I know, this connection was based on the practical identity 
of flosculi with taschenbergi (the bisexual form of folii) and 
Mayr’s recognition of the close relationship of folii and 
pubescentis. Unless experimental work ultimately disagrees, 
we may accept Mayr’s conclusions. 
Lacaze-Duthiers (1853: 273) has made histologic studies of 
the gall of pubescentis (acc. Kieffer 1901). 
Cynips folii variety flosculi 
bisexual form flosculi (Giraud) 
Spathegaster flosculi Giraud, 1868, Bull. Soc. ent. France 1868:54 ( 2, 
®). Mayr, 1871, Mitteleurop. Eichen-gallen : 50, 69 (®). Mayr- 
Fitch, 1876, The Ent. 9:76. Bayer, 1914, Moravske Halky :84. 
Spathegaster giraudi Tschek, 1869, Verh. zoo.-bot. Ges. Wien 19:559 
(2, $, ©). Mayr, 1870, Mitteleurop. Eichen-gallen :32, pi. 4 fig. 
41 (©). 
Spathegaster Giraudi Mayr, 1870, Mitteleurop. Eichen-gallen: 32, 60, 
pi. 4 fig. 41 (©). Mayr-Fitch, 1876, The Ent. 9:65, fig. 41. 
Dryophanta flosculi Mayr, 1881, Gen. gallenbew. Cynip.: 36. Mayr, 
1882, Europ. gallenbew. Cynip. : 35, 36 ( $ ) . Schlechtendal, 1891, 
Jahresb. Ver. Zwickau 1890:23. Cameron, 1893, Brit. Phytoph. 
