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This probably represents an attempt to interpret Bassett’s 
original record which read : “from the ground beneath a large 
white oak on his [C. P. Gillette’s] lawn.” Professor Gillette 
has recently written me that he is not now positive of the 
locality from which he obtained the type material of gillettei , 
but he believes the galls “were taken either at my old home in 
Ionia County, Michigan, where there was a white oak tree 
of considerable size in our dooryard, or on the campus of the 
Iowa Agricultural College. . . . I do not recall any white 
oak near the house in which we lived on the Ames campus.” 
If the present species is ever found as far west as Colorado, 
it should be represented by a variety distinct from any now 
known from the more eastern areas. 
Cynips fulvicollis variety fulvicollis 
bisexual form pallipes (Bassett) 
Figures 41, 231, 232, 233, 245, 251 
Dryophanta pallipes Bassett, 1900, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 26 : 327. Dalla 
Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. Hymen. Cynip.: 53. Felt, 1906, 
N.Y. Mus. Mem. 8 (2) : 710. Beutenmiiller, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist. 30: 358, pi. 16 figs. 5, 6. Thompson, 1915, Amer. Ins. 
Galls: 11, 38. Viereck, 1916, Hymen. Conn.: 398. Felt, 1918, N.Y. 
Mus. Bull. 200:74, fig. 65 (5, 6). Britton, 1920, Checklist Ins. 
Conn.: 320. Cresson, 1923, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 48: 200. 
Diplolepis pallipes Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich 24: 358, 
807, 825. 
FEMALE. — Head, thorax, and abdomen for the most part jet black; 
the antennae dark brown with the first three to five segments bright 
yellow; the legs light yellow except on the hind coxae which are piceous 
basally; the mesonotum smooth, naked, and very shining, sometimes 
slightly wrinkled between the parapsidal grooves, coriaceous to finely 
rugose just outside the parapsidal grooves and more rugose at the 
anterior end of the grooves, the grooves however continuous; the an- 
terior parallel and lateral lines and median groove absent; the entire 
scutellum finely rugose and finely hairy; the ridge separating the 
scutellum from the rest of the mesonotum perfectly distinct; the meso- 
pleuron entirely smooth and shining and practically naked; the wings 
1.17 times the body length, with the second abscissa of the radius fairly 
straight and ending in an abruptly bent tip; the radial cell rather long 
but not narrow; the cubital cell with a faint blotch basally and fainter 
marks apically; body length 2.3 to 2.5 mm. Figures 233, 245, 251. 
MALE. — Differing from the bisexual female as described for the 
genus. The antennae with two or more of the basal segments yellow; 
body length 2.5 to 2.8 mm. Figure 232. 
