Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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anterior parallel lines barely indicated; scutellum of moderate width, 
finely rugose, with a more or less definite foveal depression which may 
be more or less divided into foveae; dorsal projections of the hypopygial 
spine very long; both the cubital and discoidal cells with numerous cir- 
cular brown spots and with faint clouded patches, or the spots very 
faint in the discoidal cell; length 3.0 to 4.3 mm. 
GALL. — Moderate sized, hard, spherical to flask-shaped leaf gall, 
up to 9.0 mm. in length and 7.0 mm. in greatest diameter. Regular, 
spherical to bulb-shaped, attached by a moderately stout, blunt tip 
which may be up to 1.0 mm. in diameter, evenly but rather abruptly 
enlarged into a swollen, ovoid body which is well rounded at the tip; 
essentially smooth and naked, but the epidermis thin, becoming papery, 
broken, and more or less dehiscent when mature and dry, making the 
gall appear ragged or (after the epidermis has dropped) leaving it 
very smooth and polished; the young galls greenish, mottled with white, 
becoming more yellowish, light orange, pinkish, or reddish brown, finally 
becoming light to dark brown or blackish. The outer wall of the gall 
of moderate thickness, hard, compact crystalline, somewhat brittle; the 
FIG. 33. VARIETIES OF CYNIPS MACULOSA 
Geographically isolated. 
