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and western Oregon. It is confined to the Oregon white oak 
and its varieties. Experience with many other organisms, 
both plant and animal, might lead us to expect to find a dis- 
tinct variety represented by the more northern Oregon rec- 
ords which are now based on galls alone. 
Full-sized galls were collected by Mr. Leach on July 21 (in 
1924 at Millville), and Weld also records fully-formed galls 
late in July. The type insects were alive in the galls from 
which they were cut on November 13. They might be ex- 
pected to emerge in late December or January, the normal 
dates for emergence in this genus. 
Cynips (Antron?) pulchella (Beutenmuller) 
bisexual form 
Dryoplianta pulchella Beutenmuller, 1911, Ent. News 22: 357. Beuten- 
muller, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 30: 355. Felt, 1918, N.Y. 
Mus. Bull. 200: 120. McCracken and Egbert, 1922, Stanford Univ. 
Publ. 3(1) : 13. 
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. Beutenmuller, 1911, Ent. News 22: 
357. 
Female . — Head rufous or pitchy brown, finely punctate, median ridge 
rather broad. Antennae 14-jointed, dark brown, first and second joints 
yellowish brown. Thorax dark reddish brown or black, smooth and shin- 
ing. Parapsidal grooves sharply defined with the margins rounded; 
they are widely separated anteriorly and very close together at the 
scutellum. Median groove broad anteriorly and gradually becoming nar- 
rower and very fine at the scutellum. Anterior parallel lines and lateral 
grooves wanting. Pleurae punctate with a large, smooth, glossy area. 
Scutellum dark rufous or black, rugose, with two large depressions or 
foveae at the base, separated by a fine carina. Abdomen rufous, smooth 
and shining. Legs rufous. Wing long, hyaline with a number of large 
brown clouds and patches of different sizes. Veins heavy, brown and 
infuscated. Areolot small, Cubitus continuous to the first cross-vein. 
Radial area open, radial vein curved and running outwardly for a short 
distance below the costal margin. Length, 3 — 3.50 mm. 
Habitat: Catalina Island, California, (C. F. Baker) ; Hood River, 
Oregon. June 20th. 
In the specimen from Oregon the thorax is black, otherwise it does 
not differ from the form with the red thorax. It is a beautiful species 
and may be readily known by the large spots and cloud on the fore 
wings. The male and gall are unknown. 
TYPES. In the Beutenmuller collection. Not available for study. 
