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wings short, 0.90 of the body in length, extending little beyond the tip 
of the abdomen; first abscissa of the radius arcuate-angulate ; second 
abscissa of the radius only slightly expanded terminally; radial cell 
very short and broad, hardly longer than wide; areolet small; the spots 
in the cubital cell not actually but comparatively large, extending 
toward the blotch at the base of the cell; length 2.0 to 2,5 mm., dis- 
tinctly smaller than either simulatrix or brevipennata. Figures 265, 
267, 279. 
GALL. — As described for the species. Apparently not to be dis- 
tinguished from other varieties of dugesi nor from Cynips bella congesta 
which occurs in the same region. On leaves of Quercus grisea. 
RANGE. — Texas: Alpine and Fort Davis (Kinsey coll.) . Probably 
confined to the mountain ranges of West Texas (and adjacent New 
Mexico and Mexico?). Figure 44. 
TYPES. — 15 females and galls (confused with galls of Cynips bella 
congesta). Holotype female, paratype females, and galls in the Kinsey 
collection; paratype females at the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory and the U.S. National Museum. Labelled Alpine, Texas; Decem- 
ber 14, 1919; Q. grisea; Kinsey collector. 
Insects were still emerging from the galls at Alpine, Texas, 
on December 14 (in 1919), and two days later at Fort Davis; 
but most of the emergence had occurred before that date. 
The two short-winged varieties of dugesi , namely pupoides 
and brevipennata , differ in head and thoracic color, in the 
angle of the parapsidal grooves at the scutellum, and in details 
of other structural characters. Pupoid.es is distinctly smaller 
than brevipennata. The two insects nearly agree in wing 
length and in several points of venation; and since they ap- 
proach each other in their geographic location we may con- 
sider that they represent a distinct line of evolution from 
dugesi and its more typical varieties. 
The cynipid fauna of the mountains of West Texas is usually 
distinct from that of New Mexico and Arizona. 
Cynips (Atrusca) bella Bassett 
agamic forms 
FEMALE. — Head dark rufous, darker to black over much of the 
face; the antennae rufo-brown, more rufous basally; the thorax not 
particularly large, rufous to dark rufous, darker to black in places 
especially anteriorly between the parapsidal grooves, about the lateral 
lines, at the base of the scutellum, and on the mesopleura; abdomen 
mostly piceous-black, only limitedly rufo-piceous ; legs dark brownish 
