Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Weld’s type material and my own collections of insolens 
were made on the westward slopes of Taquitz Peak in the 
San Jacinto Mountains. No one, as far as I know, has found 
this gall at any other locality. We have collected enough 
Cynipidae from Q. chrysolepis , the host of insolens , to believe 
this variety does not occur north of the San Jacinto Moun- 
tains, but it is possible and probable that it occurs southward 
into Lower California. In numerous cases with the Cynip- 
idae, the San Jacinto area is the meeting ground for the south- 
ern Sierran and Lower Californian faunas, and we are not 
surprised to find both varieties patelloides and insolens in 
this place, altho we still consider them geographic segregates 
of a single species. 
Cynips guadaloupensis variety patelloides (Weld) 
agamic form 
Figures 27, 144=145, 170, 187, 192 
lAndricus patelloides Trotter, 1910 (gall only), Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici 
5: 106 fig. 6. Trotter, 1911 (gall only), Marcellia 10: 34 fig. “9” 
[= 6 ]. 
Acraspis guadaloupensis Weld, 1926 (Southern Sierran records), Proc. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 59. 
Acraspis patelloides Weld, 1926 (in most part), Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
68 (10) : 60, fig. 43. 
FEMALE. — Head bright brownish rufous, darker about the ocelli 
and on the median ridge; the mesopleuron entirely punctate and hairy; 
the abdomen with scattered aciculations on the sides, especially ven- 
trally, 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 2.9 mm. Figures 
170, 187. 
GALL. — Deep bowl- shaped, somewhat flattened basally, the sides 
steep but slightly flaring, the rim more or less circular, the top of the 
bowl solid, flat to concave; up to 13.0 mm. in diameter by 7.0 mm. high, 
usually smaller than this; with the larval cell centrally located at the 
top of the gall, the rest of the gall more or less spongy crystalline; on 
the under surfaces of leaves of Quercus chrysolepis. Figures 144-145, 
192. 
RANGE. — California: Idyllwild (Weld in U.S. Nat. Mus. and 
Kinsey coll.). San Jacinto Mountains and Pasadena (galls, Kinsey 
coll.). Camp Baldy in San Gabriel Mountains (gall, acc. Weld 1926). 
Mt. Lowe (gall, Silvestri in Kinsey coll.). Kern County (U.S.D.A. 
5527, acc. Weld 1926). Sequoia National Park (types, Weld coll.). 
Yosemite (gall, Silvestri acc. Trotter 1910) . 
