Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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(1925 at Kelseyville) . Mr. Leach has collected more mature 
galls at later dates in July, but none of the collections made 
before the first of September contained larvae large enough 
to be bred. I have bred adults (out-of-doors at Bloomington, 
Indiana) on December 23 and January 8, 12, and 20, and 
still later in January (1926-28). From one lot of 52 galls, 7 
contained gall makers, and all the others were parasitized. 
Cynips multipimctafa variety conspicua, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 32, 203-204, 211, 219 
[no name] Kellogg, 1904 (gall only), Amer. Ins.: fig. 660. 
Cynips multipunctata err. det. Fullaway, 1911, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 
4:343, 366, 368. Felt, 1918, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 200: 66. McCracken 
and Egbert, 1922, Stanford Univ. Publ. 3 (1) : 20, 49, 51, 65. 
FEMALE. — Nearly identical with variety heldae (q.v.). Median 
groove shallow and indefinite but often evident for more than half the 
length of the mesonotum; scutellum anteriorly finely rugose, grading 
directly into the roughened surface of the undivided foveal depression; 
wing veins and infuscations not as heavy as in variety multipunctata, 
nor the wings as heavily spotted as in either of the other varieties; 
cubital cell well spotted but not as heavily or as abundantly as in multi- 
punctata, the spots rarely coalescing; the radial cell usually unspotted 
or with only one or two small spots; the discoidal cell with not more 
than two or three spots; length 2.5 to 4.5 mm., averaging larger than 
multipunctata. Figures 211, 219. 
GALL. — Green when young, becoming light and then dark brown 
in color, appearing mostly smooth and naked, with only a sparse, micro- 
scopic puberulence, the microscopic ridges relatively broad; internally 
more or less solid with compacted, crystalline fibers; occurring singly or 
often in more or less compacted clusters of up to a dozen galls, on the 
veins on the under or upper surfaces of the leaves, on the petioles, or 
on the young twigs of Quercus lobata. Figures 203-204. 
RANGE. — California: Palo Alto (Wiltz coll, in Stanford Univ.). 
Cupertino (acc. Fullaway 1911). Diablo (F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). 
Napa (types, F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). Redwood City (C. T. Dodds 
in Kinsey coll.). Contra Costa County (galls, E. C. Van Dyke in Kinsey 
coll.). Klink (galls, L. H. Powell in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably wherever Q. lobata occurs thruout the Great Valley of 
California. Replaced in the Mendocino-Lake County area by variety 
heldae. Figure 32. 
TYPES. — 27 females, many galls. Holotype female, paratype fe- 
males, and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls 
at Stanford University, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History, and the U.S. National Museum. 
