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Labelled Napa, California; galls October 30, 1923; Q. lobata; F. A. 
Leach collector. 
INQUILINES . — Synergies dimorphus Osten Sacken (acc. Fullaway 
1911. Doubtful det.). Emerges in March (acc. McCracken and Egbert 
1922) . 
S. ochreus Fullaway (acc. Fullaway 1911). 
This variety is restricted to the valley white oak, Q. lobata . 
The galls occur in about equal abundance on the leaves, the 
petioles, and the young twigs. They probably appear some- 
time in July. Mr. Leach has collected full-sized but succulent 
galls at Diablo as early as August 13 and 26 (1926), and 
more mature galls on September 16 (in 1924). On November 
26 (in 1922 at Diablo) there were large larvae in the galls. 
Galls collected at the same locality as late as December 18 still 
contained mature adults which emerged soon after that date, 
tho other records indicate that emergence sometimes occurs 
late in November or earlier in December. 
Fullaway recorded two species of Synergus bred from this 
gall (see above) . Of all the material I have handled, perhaps 
80 per cent of the galls were inhabited by parasites or 
inquilines, the latter not always destructive to the gall maker 
larvae. 
Fullaway first described this variety from Stanford Uni- 
versity material which Beutenmtiller had determined as 
multipunctata. Fullaway noted the distinctive character of 
the gall, its location and host, the characteristic spotting of 
the wings, and the size of the insect, concluding that Beuten- 
mtiller’s “specimens are obviously different from mine,” but 
neglecting to give this insect a new name. Felt listed the 
two as distinct, but under one name. McCracken and Egbert 
repeated Fullaway’s suggestion without giving separate de- 
scriptions of the two. Dr. McCracken has kindly forwarded 
the Stanford material for my examination, and there is no 
question that it represents the present variety. 
Cynips multipunctata variety heldae Fullaway 
agamic form 
Figures 32, 195, 205-206, 213, 220 
Cynips heldae Fullaway, 1911, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 4:345, pi. 23 fig. 2. 
Felt, 1918, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 200: 106. McCracken and Egbert, 1922, 
Stanford Univ. Publ. 3 (1) : 20. Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
68 (10): 62. 
