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median ridge lacking unless at the very anterior point; foveal groove 
sparingly, shallowly sculptured or almost smooth at bottom; mesopleura 
largely smooth and shining, almost naked dorsally; abdomen largely 
black, a little longer than high; the second segment tongue-shaped, well 
produced dorsally, covering two-thirds or more of the whole abdomen; 
legs brown to piceous black, dirty yellow at the joints and on the tro- 
chanters; wings long, about 1.30 times the body length; areolet large 
to small, often very small or closed; cloud on the first abscissa of the 
radius quite small; tip of the radius only slightly expanded; body of 
moderate size, averaging smaller than compta or even anceps, but rang- 
ing from 2.4 to 4.0 mm. in length. Figure 387. 
FIG. 51. SOME VARIETIES OF CYNIPS MELLEA 
Possible extensions of known ranges shown by shading. 
GALL. — As described for the species, becoming white and naked 
when mature; usually rounded or flattened basally; occurring singly 
or clustered, on the leaves of Quercus stellata. 
RANGE. — Illinois: America, Olney, and Christopher (Kinsey coll.). 
Missouri: Ironton (Weld coll., types). Arcadia and 6 miles west 
of Dexter (Kinsey coll.). St. Louis (gall in U.S. Nat. Mus.). Poplar 
Bluff (acc. Weld 1926). 10 miles southeast of Springfield (R. Voris in 
Kinsey coll.). 
Arkansas: Hoxie (galls, acc. Weld 1926). 
Kentucky: Dawson Springs (Kinsey coll.). 
Ohio: Chillicothe (Kinsey coll.). 
Probably centering in the Ozarks of Missouri and more northern 
Arkansas, but extending eastward into the hills of southern Illinois, 
Kentucky, and southeastern Ohio. Figure 51. 
