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well evident for half the length of the mesonotum, deeply cut posteriorly; 
the tip of the second abscissa of the radius slightly triangulate but not 
broadly so as in variety centricola; the marks in the cubital cell not 
abundant nor large. Figure 286. 
GALL. — Almost always well spotted with brownish purple ; on 
leaves of Quercus stellata. Figures 256-257. 
RANGE. —Illinois: Bonnie (types, Kinsey coll.). Christopher, Nor- 
ris City, and Bloomfield in Johnson County (Kinsey coll.). Eddyville 
(hybrid with centricola; O. Buchanan in Kinsey coll.). 
Missouri: Annapolis (E. S. Anderson in Kinsey coll.). Arcadia 
(gall, Kinsey coll.). Ironton and Poplar Bluff (acc. Weld 1926). 
Arkansas: Hoxie (gall, acc. Weld 1926). 
Probably restricted to the Ozark areas in Arkansas and Missouri, 
and to the eastward expansions of that area in Illinois and possibly 
western Kentucky and southern Indiana. Figure 48. 
TYPES. — 11 females and many galls. Holotype and paratype fe- 
males and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls 
in the American Museum and the U.S. National Museum. Labelled 
Bonnie, Illinois; gall October 15, 1927; Q. stellata; Kinsey collector. 
This is the Ozark variety of the species, known from the 
true Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri, but like so many other 
Ozark Cynipidae it is common in the hill country of Illinois, 
and to be expected in western Kentucky and the southwestern 
part of Indiana which is geologically related to the Ozarks. 
This region is bisected by the Mississippi and lower Ohio Val- 
leys, in both of which we have found the Coastal Plain variety 
centricola , and since both centricola and strians have similarly 
spotted galls, determinations of material from this region must 
depend on the insect characters given in the comparative de- 
scriptions. Strians is the only variety of the species which 
shows a well developed median groove. 
Weld found pupae in galls probably representing this variety 
on October 10. I have bred adults on December 10 and 20 
(1927). 
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