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TYPES. — Holotype and 9 paratype females and 6 galls in the U.S. 
National Museum, Cat. No. 27205. Paratype females and galls in the 
American, Field, Philadelphia Academy, and Stanford Museums, and in 
the Kinsey collection. From the Sequoia National Park, California; 
galls September 9, 1922; adults cut out November 10, 1922; Q. dumosa; 
Weld collector. 
The holotype and all but the Stanford paratypes have been ex- 
amined in making the present re-descriptions. 
We know nothing of this variety beyond the data with 
Weld’s type material. The galls were collected on September 
9 (in 1922), at which time some of them were still green 
while others were turning brown. They then contained full- 
grown larvae which pupated about October 1. Living adults 
were cut from the galls on November 10. The insects prob- 
ably emerge normally in December or January. 
Among the galls designated as paratypes of maculosa , only 
those from the Sequoia National Park represent this variety. 
The others, from other localities, are typical tritior. 
Cynips maculosa variety tritior, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 33, 199, 207-208, 222 
Cynips maculosa err. det. Weld, 1926 (in part), Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
68 (10) : 63, figs. 11, 44. 
Female. — Color almost uniformly rich, deep rufous, the terminal 
half of the antenna dark brown, the abdomen rich, dark rufous; thorax 
quite robust, not more than three-quarters again as long as broad; the 
foveal groove of moderate width, rather deep, with a more or less defi- 
nite separation into foveae; the abdomen more robust, about half again 
as long as high; the expanded tip of the second abscissa of the radius 
large; areolet very large; length 3.0 to 3.5 mm., averaging a little 
shorter and stouter than variety maculosa. Figure 222. 
GALL. — Very similar to that of variety maculosa but often elongate, 
bulboid in shape; on leaves of Quercus durata and Q. dumosa. Figures 
199, 207-208. 
RANGE. — California: Ukiah, Lakeport, and Los Gatos (galls, acc. 
Weld 1926). 6 miles west of Highland Springs; Scott Valley in Lake 
County (P. Schulthess in Kinsey coll.). Lower Lake; Diablo (F. A. 
Leach in Kinsey coll.) . 7 miles southeast of Kelsey ville (galls, D. Hilde- 
brand in Kinsey coll.). Kelseyville (types, Schulthess in Kinsey coll.). 
Sonoma County (galls, Koebele in U.S. Nat. Mus.). Black Mountain in 
San Mateo County (H. Morrison in U.S. Nat. Mus.). Santa Cruz Moun- 
tains (Koebele in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
