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length, and which is located near the base of the gall; the upper part 
of the cone with another irregular cavity, a small amount of the com- 
pact, spongy fibers separating this from the larval cell. The galls 
entirely separable, attached to veins on the under surfaces of leaves, 
rarely to the bark of young or old twigs (acc. Kieffer 1901), almost 
always on Quercus pubescens (= Q. sessiliflora pubescens of Trotter). 
Less often on Q. lusitanica (Trotter acc. Houard 1908) and Q. pedun- 
culata (acc. Misciatelli 1895). Figures 119, 138-139. 
RANGE. — France: Marseille (A. Vayssiere acc. Houard 1914:26). 
Nimes (Darboux acc. Houard 1902). Pertuis, Motte-d’Aigues, Saint- 
Martin-de-la-Brasque, La Mole, Cogolin, and Sainte-Helene near Nice 
(acc. Cotte 1912). Dourbes (Daumezon acc. Cotte 1912). 
FIG. 21. CYNIPS CORNIFEX 
Possible extension of known range shown by shading. 
Italy: Tregnago (acc. Massalongo 1892). Verona (Trotter in Kin- 
sey coll.). Triest (acc. Graff e 1905). Brescia (Massalonga acc. Mantero 
1906). Trentino (acc. Cobelli 1905). 
Austria: Vienna (Kollar acc. Hartig 1843; et al. authors; also 
in Kinsey coll, and in U.S. Nat. Mus.) . 
Hungary (Paszlavszky acc. Kieffer 1901). 
Asia Minor (Trotter acc. Houard 1908). 
Distinctly Mediterranean, known from Asia Minor to Austria, north- 
ern Italy, and southern France. To be looked for elsewhere in south- 
ern Europe and perhaps in northern Africa. Figure 21. 
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION.— Hartig, 1843, Germar Ent. Zeit. 4: 
406. C. carnifex Kollar: nigra, thoracis dorso nigromaculato pedibusque 
rufis; coxis tarsisque posterioribus nigris. Long. 1 lin. 
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