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show every gradation from specimens as thin as typical 
guadaloupensis to the thick galls of patelloides. I have three 
specimens of the Silvestri collection from Mt. Lowe, on which 
Trotter based his name patelloides, and they represent three 
degrees of thickness in the galls. Perhaps Weld’s records for 
guadaloupensis in the Southern Sierras are based on young 
or stunted galls of patelloides, but this cannot be proved until 
we secure additional insect material from each type of gall. 
As with other Cynipidae, the San Bernardino Mountains do 
not have the southern Sierran variety of the species. Both 
insects and galls of this undescribed variety are in Weld’s col- 
lection, and galls are in my collection (W. Ebeling coll.), these 
galls being as thin as those of the typical variety guadaloupen- 
sis. 
The galls of Cynips echinus schulthessae, from Q. dumosa 
in Lake County, California, are strikingly similar to the galls 
of patelloides. 
Cynips (Antron) teres (Weld) 
agamic forms 
FEMALE. — Head as wide or wider than the thorax, brownish rufous, 
darker about the ocelli; thorax rufous, darker in places especially an- 
teriorly between the parapsidal grooves and about the lateral lines; 
mesonotum finely punctate, smooth between the punctations, smoothest 
posteriorly, finely roughened anteriorly, irregularly coriaceous laterally; 
anterior parallel and lateral lines punctate, not well defined (long- 
winged insects), or anterior parallel and lateral lines lacking (short- 
winged insects) ; scutellum brownish rufous or darker, very finely ru- 
gose; abdomen dark brownish rufous to piceous; legs entirely rufous or 
darker; wings long (variety clavuloides) or very short and stubby (var- 
ities hildebrandae and teres) ; if the wings are long, the cubital cell 
has a large blotch basally and numerous spots apically, and the dis- 
coidal cell has a blotch basally but usually no spots; 1.2 to 2.5 mm. in 
length. 
GALL. — Small, slender, stalked, swollen at the apex, resembling 
an inverted Indian club in shape. Up to 8.0 mm. in length and 2.7 mm. 
in width (near the apex). The stalk slender, strictly cylindrical except 
for a slight flare at the base, straight or bent, averaging 0.7 mm. in 
diameter, expanding gradually or abruptly into the swollen, spindle- 
shaped, or more spheroid body of the gall; the surface of the entire 
gall minutely granular, covered with a short, crystalline pubescence 
which more or less disappears with age; the young galls light, creamy 
