Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 207 
the variety represented in the mountains farther north; vari- 
ety patelloides is common in the southern Sierras and their 
extension as far south as the San Jacinto range; variety in- 
solens is known only from the San Jacinto range but may 
extend southward into Lower California. Galls representing 
apparently undescribed varieties or indeterminate material of 
this same species are at hand or recorded from the following 
localities : 
Oregon: Canyonville (acc. Weld 1926). 
California: Baird, Scott Bar, Shasta, Ukiah, Calistoga, Mt. Diablo, 
El Portal, Redwood Park, Los Gatos, and San Bernardino Mts. (acc. 
Weld 1926). 6 miles west of Highland Springs, the northeast side of 
Bartlett Mt. in Lake County, and Cobb Mt. (P. Schulthess in Kinsey 
coll.). Elk Mt. in Lake County (Schulthess and Hildebrand in Kinsey 
coll.). Colfax (F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). Murphy (J. Laminman 
in Kinsey coll.). Placerville and Dunsmuir (Kinsey coll.). Yosemite 
Valley and north of Beaumont (W. Ebeling in Kinsey coll.). 
Arizona: Santa Catalina Mts. (on Q. Wilcoxii, acc. Weld 1926). 
In addition then to the three described varieties, there may 
be a distinct variety in southern Oregon and northern Cali- 
fornia, one in the northern Sierras, perhaps another in the 
central Sierras, and one in the San Bernardino Mountains. I 
have seen an insect of Weld’s collection from this last named 
area, and it certainly represents an undescribed variety (fig. 
169). 
Weld has treated our present varieties as species of Acras- 
pis. The hypopygial spines are close to those of Acraspis , but 
if allowances are made for the shortened wings of guadalou- 
pensis , the rest of the insect characters are good for Antron, 
and the galls of guadaloupensis, which Weld did point out “are 
of a different type from those of the eastern species” of Acras- 
pis, are in structure typical for Antron. Indeed, the galls of 
variety patelloides of the present species are strikingly similar 
to those of Cynips echinus schulthessae, the type of the sub- 
genus. 
The insects of the three described varieties of the present 
species seem distinguishable on nothing but minor color vari- 
ations, by the shorter wings of variety guadaloupensis , by the 
aciculations found on the abdomen of patelloides, and by the 
naked and shining spot on the mesopleuron of insolens. The 
galls of these three varieties are, on the other hand, abun- 
