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finer, more silky, less compacted fibers between the outside wall and the 
larval cell, the cell in consequence easily broken from its position ; 
occurring singly, rarely in small, not compacted clusters, fastened to 
the veins, on the under surfaces of leaves of Quercus Douglasii. Figures 
203-204. 
RANGE. — California: Kern County (types in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Diablo and Napa (F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably thruout the more southern range of Q. Douglasii. Fig- 
ure 31. 
TYPES. — One female, one gall at the U.S. National Museum; 
another female and gall not located. From Kern County, California; 
December 6, 1892. 
The National Museum types were examined in making the present 
re-descriptions. 
This variety is restricted to the blue oak, Q. Douglasii, and 
has thus far been found only on the leaves. Beutenmuller’s 
original host record was a “species of oak/’ changed in his 
revision of the genus to “a species of white oak.” Without 
further data, Felt took this to mean Q. lobata, and McCracken 
and Egbert give this as the only host. The leaf with the type 
gall is, however, distinctly that of Q. Douglasii, and I have 
never seen specimens from any other oak and feel sure that 
the lobata records are unfounded. 
Leach collected galls in the latter half of July at Diablo. 
All of the galls collected after the first week in December 
have shown the emergence holes of the gall maker, and have 
never given me further adults. It is, however, to be ques- 
tioned whether emergence is normally as early as this since 
the other varieties of the species emerge later in December 
and in January. 
The holotype female of multipunctata at the U.S. National 
Museum is a small, broken, and not deeply pigmented speci- 
men that looks as if it might have been cut from an old gall. 
It is smaller, with the body lighter in color and the wings less 
heavily spotted than specimens I have from Diablo ; but these 
differences might well be due to the immature character of 
the holotype female, and certainly it is closer to the Diablo 
material than to indicta, the other variety known from Q. 
Douglasii. 
