Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Kansas: Winfield ( Q . macrocarpa, R. Voris in Kinsey coll.). 
Apparently centering in the Ozarks, extending somewhat beyond 
this area, from southern Indiana to southern Missouri and (scatteringly) 
in Kansas. Figure 39. 
TYPES.- — 58 females and many galls. Holotype and paratype fe- 
males and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype insects and galls 
in the U.S. National Museum, the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, and the California Academy. From America, Illinois; galls Octo- 
ber 16, 1927; insects December 13, 19, and 23, 1928, and January 3, 
1929; Q. alba ; Kinsey collector. 
As one travels southward and westward from Indiana and 
Illinois, he finds variety fulvicollis gradually giving way to a 
larger and somewhat darker insect which has a more hairy 
mesonotum. In southern Indiana as far north as Blooming- 
ton, and in Illinois as far north as Urbana, one may find many 
insects which are distinctly intermediate between fulvicollis 
and major and not always (altho sometimes) distinctly one 
or the other variety. In southern Missouri and Arkansas 
major occurs in more nearly pure? form. Further west, in 
the eastern part of Kansas, major seems to hybridize with 
vorisi, altho vorisi is on Q. macrocarpa and major seems con- 
fined to Q. alba except where alba is rare or lacking. We have 
a few specimens of what would appear to be hybrids of major 
x gig as on Quercus Michauxii and Q. Muhlenbergii in Mis- 
souri and Kansas. 
I have numerous insects of major which emerged during 
the first season, but most of the insects I have bred waited 
until the second winter for emergence. The recorded emer- 
gence dates are November 22; December 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 28, 24, 26, and 28; January 2, 3, 4, 
5, 7, 8, and 20; February 2, 6, and 20, and even one case of 
emergence as late as April 25. 
Cynips fulvicollis variety gigas (Weld) 
agamic form 
Figures 40, 229, 241, 250 
Philonix gigas Weld, 1922, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 61(18) : 12, fig. 2. 
Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68(10) : 61. 
Philonix nigra err. det. Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68(10) : 61 
(Kans. record only). 
FEMALE. — Head, including the bases of the antennae, usually 
bright rufous; thorax rich, bright rufous, darker rufo-piceous only in 
