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Probably restricted to a Southern Sierran area, at least from the 
San Jacinto Mountains to El Portal, except in the San Bernardino 
range. Figure 27. 
TYPES. — Holotype and one paratype female in the U.S. National 
Museum. From Sequoia National Park, California; galls September 7, 
1922; insects cut from galls November 10, 1922: Q. chrysolepis; Weld 
collector. Additional “paratypes,” including insects and galls in the 
American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the Phila- 
delphia Academy, the Stanford University, and the Kinsey collections 
are entirely or in part from Idyllwild and from Kern County, Cali- 
fornia; these are of debatable value because they may represent dis- 
tinct geographic varieties. 
The holotype and the paratype from the same locality are the basis 
of the present re-descriptions. 
The type galls of patelloides were collected on September 7 
(1922) and galls in the National Museum were collected Octo- 
ber 23 (1892). Live insects were cut from the type galls on 
November 10, and adults emerged from the other material 
cited on November 26. Normal emergence may be expected 
from late November, thru December, and into January. All 
of the insects had already emerged from the galls which I 
collected in the mountains north of Pasadena on February 7, 
and in the San Jacinto Mountains on February 28 (both in 
1920). 
This is not an uncommon gall in the southern Sierran sys- 
tem, and all of the deep, bowl-shaped galls of this species 
probably represent but a single variety that ranges in the 
mountains from the Merced River to the Sierra Madre and 
the San Jacinto ranges. This area in most cases has a uni- 
form cynipid fauna. I have not seen Weld’s material from 
Kyburz, in the central Sierras, but it probably represents a 
distinct variety, perhaps the same which I have represented 
by more mushroom-shaped galls from Colfax in that same 
part of the Sierras. I question whether a second variety of 
this species occurs within the range of patelloides , except in 
the San Jacinto Mountains where insolens (possibly a Lower 
Californian variety) is also represented. Weld’s records of 
variety guadaloupensis from Idyllwild, the San Gabriel range, 
and the Sequoia National Park are in conflict with this opin- 
ion, and I have one gall from the San Jacinto Mountains and 
one from El Portal that I first determined as guadaloupensis. 
On the other hand, in my San Jacinto collection are galls that 
