Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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From the type galls which were collected in December, 
adults emerged indoors in January. This, and the data for 
the other species of the subgenus, leads us to expect normal 
emergence out-of-doors in December or early January. 
This variety was described from a southern Coast Range 
area to which it may be restricted. On the other hand, galls 
indistinguishable from those of typical guadaloupensis are 
common in the mountains of more central California and in 
northern parts of that state, and two insects which I bred 
from Elk Mt., Lake County material, seem identical with 
the types of guadaloupensis. Perhaps all of the other more 
central California gall records listed in the introductory dis- 
cussion of this species may apply to our present variety, but I 
prefer to withhold judgment until we can examine more in- 
sect material from the area. The Oregon and southern Ari- 
zona records for guadaloupensis will undoubtedly prove to rep- 
resent distinct varieties. 
The thin, flattened galls of the present variety are very dif- 
ferent from the elongate, pouch-shaped galls of variety in- 
solens and the usually bowl-shaped galls of patelloides; but 
some of the younger and stunted galls of patelloides are as 
thin as those of true guadaloupensis. In the latter case, the 
insects and the geographic ranges must be relied upon in mak- 
ing determinations. In addition, the galls of Fullaway’s pat- 
tersonae (described in 1911, Ann. Amer. Ent. Soc. 4:352) 
are hardly distinguishable from thin galls of guadaloupensis. 
Pattersonae, however, represents an unrelated genus. The 
galls of pattersonae occur on the blue oak, Q. Douglasii, while 
all of the varieties of our present species are restricted to the 
canyon oaks, Q. chrysolepis and Q. Wilcoxii. 
I am indebted to Dr. McCracken, of Stanford University, for 
the opportunity to study the types of this variety in connec- 
tion with the present revision of Cynips. The holotype is 
light yellow rufous in color and appears to be not fully pig- 
mented. The wings of both the holotype and the more nor- 
mal (tho headless) paratype are distinctly shorter than the 
wings of either insol ens or patelloides, but not as short as the 
wings of Weld’s San Bernardino material of this species. 
Fullaway’s statement that the areolet is “distinct” should not 
be taken to mean that it is open, for it is entirely closed in 
the type material. 
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