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Cynips subgenus Besbicus, new subgenus 
agamic forms 
Holcaspis of one assignment (Beutenmiiller, 1909, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist. 26: 43). 
Amphibolips of one assignment (Trotter, 1910, Boll. Lab. Portici 5: 101). 
Cynips Fullaway, 1911 (in part), Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 4: 343-345. Mc- 
Cracken & Egbert, 1922, Stanford Univ. Publ. 3(1): 19-20. Weld, 
1926 (in part), Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 62-64. Also of most 
other American authors. 
Dryophanta Beutenmiiller, 1911 (in part), Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
30: 346. 
FEMALE. — The cheeks distinctly enlarged behind the eyes; anten- 
nae unusually long and slender, with 14 (or 15) segments; the thorax 
large, sometimes heavy; parapsidal grooves distinctly continuous; 
median groove lacking or barely indicated posteriorly; mesopleuron en- 
tirely punctate; abdomen naked only dorsally, the lateral surfaces of 
the second to fifth segments always finely punctate and well-coated with 
appressed hairs; hypopygial spine remarkably large, nearly as high 
as long, with the ventral tip blunt, with large, dorsal projections that 
extend nearly as far as the ventral tip or beyond it; tarsal claws large, 
heavy, strongly toothed; wings always long, about 1.50 times the body 
length, the second abscissa curved only toward the tip, ending in a 
triangulate expansion; the radial cell rather long, of moderate width; 
areolet large to very large; the cubital and discoidal cells with faint, 
smoky patches, the cubital cell with numerous dark spots, the spots 
rather regularly distributed over the cell, rarely tending to fuse; the 
discoidal cell with spots which may be obscure in some individuals; 
usually robust insects 2.5 to 5.0 mm. in length. 
GALL. — Of diverse form and structure; fundamentally spherical, 
in one species (maculosa) drawn out to a short gourd-shape, in another 
(heldae) with irregular ridges and projections distorting the surface; 
moderately small to large galls; thin-shelled to thick-walled; with a 
distinct larval cell that is held in place by silky, radiating fibers (in 
mirabilisy maculosa, and young multipunctata ) or closely embedded in 
solid, crystalline masses that fill most of the gall ( heldae and old 
multipunctata). Attached singly or (more often) clustered, on the leaf 
veins, petioles, or (in heldae and multipunctata ) young twigs of Pacific 
Coast white oaks (not including the Q. chrysolepis group). 
RANGE. — Confined to a more northern Pacific Coast area; known 
from Kern County, California, to British Columbia, probably extending 
to the northern limit of Quercus garryana in British Columbia. Figure 
30. 
SUBGENOTYPE. — Cynips multipunctata conspicua, new variety. 
Present designation. 
