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The galls of the three described varieties are so similar that 
their relation would never be questioned except that the vari- 
ety clavuloides gives a normally long-winged insect and the 
varieties teres and hildebrandae give short-winged adults with 
reduced thoraces and swollen abdomens. Most authors have 
considered the first a true Cynips {= Dryophanta) , but Weld 
considered teres a Xanthoteras related to the wingless forti- 
cornis of the eastern United States. In Part I of the present 
study we have presented our reasons (pp. 25 to 36) for rec- 
ognizing these diverse insects as varieties of one species. 
Cynips teres variety clavuloides, new name"" 
agamic form 
Figures 28, 142-143, 164, 171, 188 
[no name] Kellogg, 1904, Amer. Ins., fig. 659. 
Dryophanta clavula Beutenmuller, 1911, Ent. News 22: 67. Beuten- 
muller, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 30: 347, pi. 13 fig. 7. Felt, 
1918, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 200: 106, fig. 99(7). McCracken and Egbert, 
1922, Stanford Univ. Publ. 3 (1) : 11. 
Diplolepis clavula Fullaway, 1911, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 4: 337. Weld, 
1926, Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 24. 
[no name] Leach, 1923, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune Mag., May 6, 
1923:11, fig. 
[NOT Cynips clavula Osten Sacken, 1865, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. 4: 351]. 
FEMALE. — Head about as wide as the thorax; thorax of normal 
size, rather slenderly robust, longer than high, almost twice as long as 
wide; parapsidal grooves distinct; anterior parallel lines of moderate 
width, distinct, broader posteriorly, not widely separated; lateral lines 
moderately wide, smooth and naked, long; scutellum of normal size, dis- 
tinctly longer than wide, not particularly broad, dorsally raised along 
a median line, the foveal groove shallow, narrow, not divided but nar- 
rowest at the mid-point; abdomen rather slender, about twice as long 
as high, very much produced dorsally, the second segment elongated 
tongue-shaped, covering nearly three-quarters of the abdomen; wings 
long, about 1.6 times the body length; the first abscissa of the radius 
with a distinct infuscation, areolet of moderate size or smaller, more or 
less infuscated; the cubital cell with a rather large, smoky brown patch 
near its base and with 7 to 12 distinct spots spread over the rest of the 
cell, some of these spots sometimes tending to fuse; a lighter smoky 
patch at the base of the discoidal cell; similar smoky patches where the 
* In accordance with the recommendation of the International Code, I have offered 
Mr. Beutenmuller the opportunity to re-name this insect. Under date of August 24, 1929, 
he writes me as follows : “My D. clavula is not congeneric with C. clavula O. S. and 
I do not want to make the change, as mostly all of your work is synthetic and of no 
value. Yours truly, W. Beutenmuller.” 
