Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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No material of this insect has been available for the pres- 
ent study. From the original description pulchella would ap- 
pear to be a true Cynips. The naked abdomen, blotched and 
spotted wings, and Pacific Coast distribution suggest that the 
subgeneric position is in Antron. All of the characters of the 
insect and the June collection would identify this as a bisexual 
form, and if it is a true Antron this must be the bisexual gen- 
eration of some variety of C. teres or C. guadaloupensis. The 
bisexual forms of C. echinus are known to differ in detail from 
pulchella. The naive admission that the Oregon specimen 
has a black thorax while the Catalina Island specimen has a 
red thorax is, of course, in accord with our knowledge that 
southern Californian cynipids may be represented by closely 
related but not identical varieties in northern Oregon. Until 
someone obtains access to the Beutenmuller collection, it will 
be impossible to determine which of the two type specimens 
deserves the name pulchella and which represents the un- 
named variety. 
Pulchella has not been counted in the statistics given in this 
paper, for if it proves the bisexual generation of some de- 
scribed, agamic form of Antron , it will not alter the total 
number of varieties known in the genus. 
