Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 203 
spines found in other varieties; mature galls light yellowish in color, 
only occasionally tinged pink, with a puberulence which only occa- 
sionally looks purplish, weathered galls turning dark brown and then 
black; internally not as hard as in other varieties; on Quercus durata 
and Q. dumosa. Figures 151-153, 193. 
RANGE. — California: 7 miles southeast of Kelseyville (galls, 
Hildebrand in Kinsey coll.). Seigler Springs (Hildebrand in Kinsey 
coll.). Kelseyville (Schulthess, types). 6 miles west of Highland 
Springs, Scott Valley in Lake County, and the northeast side of Bart- 
lett Mt. in Lake County (Schulthess in Kinsey coll.). Middletown and 
Clear Lake (galls, F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). Howell Mt. in north- 
western Napa County (H. W. Clark in Kinsey coll.). Winters (galls, 
Vansell in Univ. of Calif, and Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to an area including Lake County and parts of 
the adjacent counties. Figure 26. 
TYPES. — 9 females and 66 galls. Holotype female, paratype fe- 
males, and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls 
in the American Museum of Natural History, the U.S. National 
Museum, and Stanford University. Labelled Kelseyville, California; 
galls September 20, 1925, and September 26, 1926; Q. durata; P. Schul- 
thess collector. 
Four years ago Mr. F. A. Leach collected galls of this vari- 
ety, but I failed to breed insects from them. During the past 
three years Miss Pauline Schulthess, of Kelseyville, has se- 
cured fine collections of the galls from which insects have 
emerged. Miss Schulthess has done a splendid piece of work 
in collecting the galls of Lake County, an area that has been 
practically neglected heretofore as far as Cynipidae are con- 
cerned, altho it is biologically distinct from either the Great 
Valley or the Coast Ranges of California. I take pleasure in 
recording the fact that a young student’s eyes and energy may 
contribute much to taxonomic science. Many other Lake 
County records based on the same collector’s material will be 
found elsewhere in this study, often in connection with vari- 
eties and species which have not been previously described. 
Galls collected by Miss Dorothy Hildebrand, near Kelsey- 
ville on July 26 (1927) were young and for the most part 
small, altho a few of them were of full size. Galls collected 
on September 1, (1927) and September 2 (in 1925) were 
full size and the larvae were not small. Bartlett Mountain 
material collected October 31 (1926) emerged out-of-doors at 
Bloomington, Indiana, on January 7 (1927). The Kelseyville 
material had not yet emerged on January 12 (1926), but on 
