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Cynips guadaloupensis variety insolens (Weld) 
agamic form 
Figures 27, 140-141, 167, 186 
Acraspis insolens Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 59, fig. 42. 
FEMALE. — Head brownish rufous; the mesopleuron with a shin- 
ing, naked spot dorsally; the abdomen smooth, naked, and without 
aciculations on segments three to six; wings about 0.80 of the body in 
length, reaching about to the tip of the abdomen; length 2.0 to 2.6 mm. 
Figures 167, 186. 
GALL. — Peculiarly pouch- or wedge-shaped; drawn to a blunt, 
cylindrical tip at the base, much compressed and concave on two broad 
sides; the sides with distinct rims, approaching each other basally but 
well separated apically, well rounded at the apex; up to 10.0 mm. in 
length, the broad sides up to 5.0 mm. wide and up to 4.0 mm. apart at 
the apex; the dimensions usually smaller than this; with the larval cell 
located near the apex of the gall and a large, elongate, cylindrical cavity 
lying between the cell and the base of the gall; on the under surfaces 
of leaves of Quercus chrysolepis. Figures 140-141. 
RANGE. — California: Idyllwild (Weld; types). San Jacinto Mt. 
(galls, Kinsey) . 
Not known beyond a single locality in the San Jacinto Mountains, 
but possibly occurring thruout a southern Californian and Lower Cal- 
ifornian area that reaches its northern limit in the San Jacinto Moun- 
tains. Figure 27. 
TYPES. — 5 females and galls. Holotype and one paratype female 
and galls in the U.S. National Museum (Cat. No. 27203) ; paratype 
females and galls in the American Museum of Natural History, the 
Field Museum, and Stanford University; paratype galls in the Phila- 
delphia Academy and the Kinsey collection. From Idyllwild, California; 
gall September 21, 1922; females cut from galls November 11, 1922; 
Q. chrysolepis ; Weld collector. 
The holotype and three of the paratype insects and paratype galls 
have been used in making the present re-descriptions. 
There are few cynipid galls more unusual in shape than the 
galls of this variety of guadaloupensis. Nevertheless, these 
show the internal structure typical in Antron. 
Weld’s material was collected on September 21 (in 1922), 
and living adults were cut out of the galls on November 11. 
The insects were all emerged from the galls which I collected 
on February 28 (in 1920). As with other agamic forms in 
this subgenus, the insects probably emerge out-of-doors in 
December or January. 
