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Cynips fulvicollis var. A and C Kinsey, 1927, Field and Lab. Manual 
in Biol.: 108. 
[NOT Diplolepis niger Fourcroy, 1785, Ent. Paris 2: 392 — published as 
Cynips nigra by Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen. 2 : 73.] 
[NOT Biorhiza nigra Fitch, 1859, 5th Rpt. Nox. Ins. N.Y.: 782 — pub- 
lished as Cynips (Biorhiza) nigra by Packard, 1881, U.S. Ent. 
Comm. Bull. 7 : 56.] 
[NOT synonomy in Beutenmiiller, 1918, Ent. News 29: 328.] 
[NOT Andricus fulvicollis forms bicolens and erinacei Kinsey, 1920, 
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 353-356, 381, figs. 33, 34.] 
FEMALES. — Higly variable insects, the head usually rich, dark 
rufous to black, darkest medianly; antennae brownish rufous, brighter 
basally, black apically; thorax rich rufous, darker to piceous or black 
in places especially anteriorly between the parapsidal grooves; mesono- 
tum sparingly punctate and hairy, sometimes naked and shining poster- 
iorly; abdomen rufo-piceous to black; the hairy patch on the second 
segment of limited extent; legs partly rufous to wholly rufo-brown, 
piceous, or black; wings averaging about 0.55 of the body in length, 
reaching three-quarters or more along the second abdominal segment, 
narrow, with reduced subcostal and basal veins and but mere traces 
of the other veins; moderate-sized insects 2.2 to 3.7 mm. in length. 
Figures 234, 242-243, 252, 255. 
GALL. — Up to 10.0 mm. in diameter; naked to pubescent; on leaves, 
usually of Quercus alba, occasionally on Q. Michauxii (and Q. macro- 
car pa?) . Figure 228. 
RANGE. — Ontario: Toronto (Brodie in U.S. Nat. Mus.; also acc. 
Cosens 1912). 
New Hampshire: Alton Bay (galls, Mrs. D. Tenney coll.). 
Massachusetts: Forest Hills and Framingham (galls, Kinsey coll.). 
Connecticut: probably Waterbury (Bassett coll.). 
New York: near Albany? (Fitch, types of fulvicollis and nigricol- 
lis) . New York City (Beutenmiiller acc. Weld 1926). Riverhead 
(Crosby acc. Weld 1926). Ithaca (acc. Weld 1926). 
New Jersey: Ft. Lee (Beutenmiiller in American Mus. Nat. Hist.). 
Bennett (Kinsey coll.) . 
D. C.: Rock Creek (F. E. Mather in U.S. Nat. Mus.). Washington 
(H. S. Barber in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Ohio: Columbus (galls, Kinsey coll.). 
Michigan: Ionia Co.? (Gillette, types of gillettei and of niger?). 
Tekonsha, Owosso, Bay City and Traverse City (Kinsey coll.). Three 
Rivers ( Q . alba and Q. macrocarpa, Kinsey coll.). Martin (gall, Kinsey 
coll.). 
Indiana: Porter (acc. Weld 1926). North Webster, Winona Lake, 
Delphi, Mitchell, and Ontario (galls, Kinsey coll.). Crawfordsville (E. 
C. Stout and Hugh Lee in Kinsey coll.). Steubenville, Huntington, 
Bloomington, 10 miles southeast of Bloomington, 7 miles east of Bloom- 
ington, Linton, Clinton, and Bedford (Kinsey coll.). Ft. Wayne (C. M. 
