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Tennessee : Tazewell, Clinch River near Maynardsville, and Charles- 
ton (galls, Kinsey coll.). Tellicoe River near Madisonville, and 9 miles 
northeast of Chattanooga (inch some hybrids with centricola; Kinsey 
coll.). 
North Carolina: Hendersonville (inch some hybrids with centricola; 
Kinsey coll.) . 
South Carolina: Travellers Rest (Kinsey coll.). 
Georgia: 6 miles north of Trion, and Rome (Kinsey coll.). Acworth 
(gall, Kinsey coll.). 
Alabama: Athens (gall, Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to a limited area on the western side of the 
Southern Appalachians. Figure 48. 
Types. — 20 females and many galls in the Kinsey collection. From 
Coolville, Ohio; galls October 24, 1928; insects November 13 and Decem- 
ber 1, 9, 16, and 20, 1928; Q. stellata; Kinsey collector. 
Thruout the more southern portion of the Appalachians, 
from the foothills in southern Ohio and southward into 
Georgia and Alabama, this is the variety of centricola to be 
expected wherever Quercus stellata occurs. This part of the 
country is poorly known biologically, and much of its cynipid 
fauna has not been previously described. At lower levels both 
east and west of the Great Smokies clivorum appears to hybri- 
dize with variety centricola, and such hybridization may be 
expected wherever the two come into contact. Clivorum is to 
be distinguished by the insect characters noted in the com- 
parative descriptions, and also by the unspotted gall. The gall 
of variety centricola is also unspotted on occasion, especially 
when immature, but centricola is usually well covered with 
bright purplish spots. 
My insects of this variety were bred on November 2 and 13, 
December 1, 9, 15, 16, 18, and 20, and January 2 (all in 1928). 
Even tho winter comes early in much of the range of this 
variety, emergence is at just about the same dates as the 
emergence of varieties centricola and strians , both of which 
occur in warmer areas. 
Cynips centricola variety rubrae (Karsch) 
agamic form 
Figures 47, 274, 275 
Diplolepis quercus-rubrae Karsch, 1880, Zeitschr. gesammt Naturw. 5: 
293, pi. 6 figs. 4a, b. Mayr, 1886, Verh. zoo.-bot. Ges. Wien 36: 369. 
Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich 24: 344, 355, 811. 
Cynips rubrae Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen. 2: 76. 
