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Cynips mellea variety compta, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 51, 296-298, 350, 355, 388 
FEMALE. — In general color reddish rufous and black; antennae 
dark brown, the first two segments light rufous; mesonotum moderately, 
shallowly punctate and moderately hairy, finely coriaceous or shagreened 
posteriorly, irregularly roughened elsewhere between the punctations; 
anterior parallel and lateral lines rather broad, for the most part punc- 
tate or roughened; median groove almost absent; scutellum hardly 
longer than broad, coarsely rugose to sculptured, its median ridge not 
prominent; foveal groove more or less smooth at bottom; abdomen dark 
rufo-piceous, more rufus antero-laterally, only a bit longer than high; 
the second segment more extended dorsally but not tongue-shaped, cover- 
ing at least half of the abdomen; legs dark rufous, light rufous at 
some of the joints and on the trochanters; wings long, about 1.30 times 
the body length; areolet large to very large; cloud on the first abscissa 
of the radius larger than in anceps; tip of the radius distinctly en- 
larged; body generally larger and heavier than in anceps, 3.5 to 4.5 
mm., averaging almost 4.0 mm. in length. Figures 350, 355, 388. 
GALL. — Naked when mature, becoming pinkish brown or darker in 
color; with little solid material; rounded or flattened basally; occurring 
singly on leaves of Quercus stellata. Figures 296-298. 
RANGE. — Texas: Austin (Patterson, types; also Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to an area extending (westward?) from Austin, 
Texas. Figure 51. 
TYPES. — 33 females, 4 clusters of galls. Holotype and paratype 
females and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females at the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, the U.S. National Museum, the Cali- 
fornia Academy, and the American Museum of Natural History. 
Labelled Austin, Texas; galls August 15, 1921, insects February 9, 
1922; Q. stellata; Patterson collection 138. 
The Patterson material (numbers 9, 127, and 138) repre- 
sents nearly full-sized galls gathered August 15 (in 1921) and 
at later dates. Galls I gathered at Austin on December 4 (in 
1919) contained mature adults which did not emerge until 
some time later. Patterson found mature adults beginning 
to gnaw out on January 28 (in 1923), and he records them 
emerging on February 1 (in 1923) and February 9 (in 1922). 
The younger galls are hairy, later losing all but a stellate 
pubescence, finally (before the first of December) becoming 
entirely naked. These various stages might pass for galls 
of different species, but there are no other differences in the 
galls and none in the adults. 
Four years ago Mr. Rohwer kindly compared material of 
the present variety with the type of Carolina at the U. S, Na- 
