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FEMALE AND MALE. — Differing from the bisexual adults of C. 
folii form taschenbergi only in having the legs duller yellow, with the 
femora yellowish brown to brownish piceous, this difference more ap- 
parent in the females than in the males. Differing from the bisexual 
adults of C. divisa form verrucosa in having the mesonotum and meso- 
pleuron entirely smooth and shining. Figure 100. 
GALL. — Very similar to the galls of the bisexual forms of Cynips 
folii. Dull green in color, with a rather long, gray pubescence, and a 
sharply pointed tip; up to 20. mm. in length. On the bark at the bases 
of older stems or (less often) two year old stems; on Quercus peduncu- 
lata and Q. sessiliflora. 
RANGE. — Probably that of the agamic form longiventris (fig. 17) 
which is confined to more Central Europe and which is not known in 
the Mediterranean area. The bisexual form substituta is known defi- 
nitely from: 
England: southern part (acc. Connold 1908). 
Holland (acc. Beyerinck 1883). 
Denmark: Basnaes and Stiznaes (Hoffmeyer in Kinsey coll.). 
France: Lorraine (acc. Liebel 1892). 
Germany: Schleswig (acc. Adler 1881; types). Lobenstein (acc. 
Dierdoff 1911). Dresden (Baumwiese acc. Riedel 1910). Bautzen 
(Mbnchsw. and Berg acc. Riedel 1910). Tharandt (Baer acc. Riedel 
1910). Lobenstein (Reuss acc. Riedel 1896). Bavaria (acc. Ross 1916). 
Austria-Hungary (acc. Houard 1908) . 
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (of similis) . — Adler, 1881, Zeitschr. 
Wiss. Zook 35: 190, pi, 11 fig. 15a. Galle: Ungefahr 2 mm lang, der 
vorigen ahnlich aber schlanker und mehr zugespitzt, von griinlich grauer 
Farbe und sammetartiger Oberflache. . . . ubrigens ist die starkere 
und langere Beharrung ein wesentlicher Unterschied von der Taschen- 
bergi-Galle (Fig. 15a). . . . [Follows an account of the development 
of the gall and the insect biology]. . . . Wespe : Lange 2 mm, 
schwarz, Taschenbergi zum Verwechseln ahnlich, nur an der dunkleren 
Farbung der Beine zu unterscheiden ; diese sind dunkler gelb, Schenkel 
und Tibien am Auszenrande schwarzlich. 
Translation: Gall approximately 2 mm. in length, very similar to 
the preceding [ folii taschenbergi ] but more slender and more pointed, 
with a greenish gray color and velvety surface. . . . The more stiff 
and longer hairs constitute the prime difference from the gall of taschen- 
bergi. . . . The wasp is 2 mm. in length, black, and very easily mis- 
taken for taschenbergi from which it is to be distinguished only by its 
darker legs; these are dull yellow, with the femora and tibiae blackish 
on the margins. 
TYPES. — Of similis: 9 insects designated as types in the Vienna 
Museum (acc. F. Maidl in litt.) . From Schleswig, Germany; Adler 
collector. Now designated as types of the new name substituta. 
The present descriptions are based on the published descriptions 
cited in the bibliography, and on six insects which I have from Den- 
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