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Hearne, West Point, and Sinton ( Q . stellata, Kinsey coll.). Leander 
( Q . breviloba, Kinsey coll.). 
Mississippi: Pass Christian ( Q . stellata, galls, Kinsey coll.). 
South Carolina: Hardeeville (Kinsey coll.). 
Georgia: Barnesville ( Q . stellata, Kinsey coll.). Henderson (hy- 
brids, on Q. floridana, Kinsey coll.). Valdosta (Q. Chapmanni, Kinsey 
coll.). 6 miles north of Trion ( Q . alba, Kinsey coll.). 
Alabama: Elmore and Athens ( Q . stellata, Kinsey coll.). 5 miles 
south of Troy (hybrid with litigcms, on Q. floridana, Kinsey coll.). Pel- 
ham (hybrid with litigans, on Q. stellata, Kinsey coll.). 
Florida: Milton ( Q . alba, Kinsey coll.). Campbellton ( Q . alba; 
hybrid with albicolens ; Kinsey coll.). Wakulla ( Q . floridana, Kinsey 
coll.). Madison (galls, acc. Weld 1926). 
Probably thruout more eastern Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of 
Arkansas, eastward along the Gulf Coast to western Florida, extending 
northward across half of Alabama and Georgia (but further north only 
as hybrids with crassior and litigans). Figure 52. 
FIG. 52. GULF COAST VARIETY OF CYNIPS MELLEA 
Possible extension of known range shown by shading. 
TYPES. — 7 females, 10 galls. Holotype and paratype females and 
galls in the Kinsey collection. A paratype female and galls in the U.S. 
National Museum. Labelled Austin, Texas; galls January 28, 1923; 
insects February 1, 1923; Q. breviloba; Patterson collection number 127. 
The types (and other Patterson material) were preserved for a time in 
alcohol, and the rufous areas are consequently brighter than in material 
preserved dry. 
Patterson cut live insects from galls of anceps on January 
25 and 28, and secured emerging adults at Austin, Texas, on 
February 2 and 7 (1923). I have bred Alabama, Georgia, and 
