Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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TYPES. — 14 females and numerous galls. Holotype and paratype 
females and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls 
in the American Museum of Natural History and the U.S. National 
Museum. From Charleston, Tennessee; galls November 9, 1927; insects 
December 19, 1928, and January 4, 1929. The type series shows some 
eifect of hybridization with a darker insect; the holotype is a bright 
rufous individual agreeing with the east Texas material. 
This variety and Ashmead’s lanaeglobuli are the most 
southern forms described for this species. Cynips fulvicollis 
seems not at all common in the more southeastern portion of 
the United States; and we have little material of the present 
variety altho we have engaged in held work over many thou- 
sands of miles in what would appear to be the range of this 
insect. The host of three of our collections is Q. alba, but a 
Texas insect from Q. stellata seems identical with the holotype 
of rubricosa. 
The insects of rubricosa are closest to variety gigas, but 
rubricosa is much smaller with a much shorter wing and a 
bright rufous to rufo-piceous patch at the base of the ab- 
domen. 
Our Texas material of rubricosa emerged on January 7, 
during the hrst winter after collecting the galls. All of the 
insects of the type series, from Tennessee, delayed emergence 
until the second winter, coming out on December 19 and 
January 4. 
Cynips fulvicollis variety vorisi, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 38, 230, 238, 248 
FEMALE. — Head dark rufous and black, the antennae largely 
black; the entire thorax dark rufous and black; the entire mesonotum 
closely punctate and very hairy; the abdomen entirely piceous black, 
the hairs largely confined to a limited patch on the second segment, 
with stray hairs sometimes on other segments; legs largely rufo-brown 
to rufo-piceous; wings relatively short altho appearing larger because of 
the large size of the insect, only about 0.43 of the body in length, ex- 
tending to the margin of or beyond the second segment, not narrow, 
the venation fairly complete basally but incomplete beyond the areolet; 
a large and distinctly robust insect 3.4 to 4.7 mm. in length. Figures 
238, 248. 
GALL. — As described for the species, very large, pubescent, up to 
17.0 mm. in diameter; on the leaves of Quercus macrocarpa and Q. 
bicolor. (Rarely on Q. Michauxii ?) . Figure 230. 
