Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 325 
Florida insects on January 20, February 7, and March 23 (all 
in 1928). 
This insect is very close to the Central Texas compta, with 
which anceps appears to interbreed at Austin. The data on 
the development of anceps and compta are, as far as we know 
them, parallel. The material of anceps from the area in 
Texas east of Austin is quite uniform. I see no constant 
differences between the Q. hreviloba and Q. stellata material 
from Texas and the Q. alba , Q. floridana, Q , Margaretta, and 
Q. Chapmanni material from western Florida, southern 
Georgia, and southern Alabama. Elsewhere in Alabama and 
Georgia Quercus alba isolates a distinct variety, albicolens. 
The wide extension of the range of anceps is an example of 
what we may expect to learn about others of the East Texas 
species when we have extended our explorations in the South. 
Our series are large enough to eliminate uncertainties in our 
determinations of this eastern material of anceps, altho we 
have no material to show where the variety may occur in the 
Mississippi Valley and the state of Mississippi. 
It will be understood that thruout most of Georgia and Ala- 
bama anceps is replaced by variety litigans on Q. stellata and 
albicolens on Q. alba, while in the southern Appalachian area, 
crassior is the common representative of our present species. 
The records for anceps occuring north of the Gulf area repre- 
sent only a small percentage of our collections. We have the 
short-winged variety bifurca from southern Mississippi and 
southern Georgia from localities well within the range of 
anceps, and I do not yet know what isolation factors keep the 
two insects distinct. Still further to the east, anceps meets 
the Coastal Plain variety mellea in northern Florida, but we 
lack collections to show where the two insects come together. 
In northern Arkansas, anceps gives way to the Ozark variety 
unica. 
Cynips mellea variety bifurca, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 51, 294-295, 338-339, 357-360, 390 
FEMALE. — Largely bright rufous, the legs and antennae often 
entirely yellow rufous, smaller specimens lighter in color, larger speci- 
mens darker rufous with piceous or black edges to the thoracic plates, 
with the terminal halves of the antennae and the legs in part dark 
brown and the head and abdomen in part rufo-piceous; the thorax 
somewhat reduced, most so in the specimens with the shortest wings, 
