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FEMALE. — Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs entirely rich rufous, 
only slightly darker in places, nowhere black; the mesonotum with only 
a trace of the median groove right at the scutellum; anterior parallel 
lines not widely separated nor divergent posteriorly; foveae very spar- 
ingly, very shallowly sculptured, more nearly separated than in variety 
mirabilis; second abscissa of the radius ending in a very large, triangu- 
late tip; areolet very large. Figures 215, 216, 223. 
GALL. — As described for the species, indistinguishable from that 
of variety mirabilis; on Quercus garryana (and its variety semota ?) . 
Figure 197. 
RANGE.— California: Yreka?, and IJkiah (galls, Kinsey coll.). 
Fort Jones (?), Scott Bar(?), and Sequoia National Park (acc. Weld 
1926). Yorkville, (types, F. A. Leach coll.). Pit River in eastern 
Shasta County (F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). Millville and Hot Springs 
in Shasta County (galls, F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). Elsies Creek in 
Amador County (gall, G. Hansen in Gray Herb.). Sonoma County (in 
U.S. Nat. Mus.). In Napa County 12 miles southeast of Middletown 
(gall, “Q. dumosa” Schulthess and Hildebrand in Kinsey coll.). Bakers- 
field (galls, H. L. Bauer in Kinsey coll.). Hoff in Tulare County (galls, 
F. A. Leach in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to the more southern range of Q. garryana in 
California. The southern Sierran records, based on galls alone, need 
re-determination. Figure 34. 
TYPES. — 3 females, 29 galls. Holotype females, paratype females, 
and galls in the Kinsey collection. Galls in the American Museum of 
Natural History, the U.S. National Museum, the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology, Stanford University, and the California Academy. Labelled 
Yorkville, California; October 29, 1922; Q. garryana; F. A. Leach col- 
lector. 
This is the more southern variety of mirabilis. Mr. Leach 
collected young galls at Hot Springs in Tulare County (per- 
haps a distinct variety) as early as, July 5 (1927), and in 
Shasta County on July 19 (in 1924). The type galls were 
collected on October 29 (at Yorkville in 1922) at which time 
practically all of the adults had emerged. Three mature 
adults had eaten their way out of the larval cell but were 
prevented from emerging either by the mass of the fibers or 
by the drying out of the outer shell of the gall. They were 
alive in this position in the galls for at least a half month. 
Five adults from Sonoma County, represented in the National 
Museum, are labelled January. 
A single gall which I have from northern Napa County (12 
miles southeast of Middletown) is recorded as from Q. 
dumosa . Whether this is an error for Q. garryana (altho 
