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rieties of both these species are indistinguishable, and the in- 
sects alone can be depended upon for determinations. The 
detailed discussion of this point in the introduction to Cynips 
bella, as well as all of the other data pertaining to the galls and 
the life history data for bella will apply to the present species. 
Dugesi is now known from four varieties, one found in 
FIG. 44. VARIETIES OF CYNIPS DUGESI 
Showing g-eographic isolation of related insects. 
southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, one in southern 
New Mexico and Arizona, one in the mountains of West Texas, 
and one in central Mexico. I have broken material of an- 
other variety from the Apache Trail country of Arizona. 
Houard (1927, Marcellia 23 : 99) reports galls from Guatemala 
which are said to resemble dugesi galls, and the species proba- 
bly extends that far south, altho we must await insects for 
verification of the determination. 
