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tion ; anterior parallel and lateral lines rather broad, not entirely 
smooth; median groove hardly evident; scutellum no longer than broad, 
moderately rugose, with the median ridge hardly evident; foveal groove 
broad, largely rugose at bottom; abdomen entirely black, not elongate, 
the second segment not tongue-shaped, covering two-thirds or more of 
the abdomen; legs nearly black, rufous at some of the joints and on 
the trochanters; wings long, about 1.30 times the body length; the 
areolet of moderate size only; cloud on the first abscissa of the radius 
of moderate size; tip of the radius hardly at all enlarged; quite robust 
insects 3.0 to 4.0 mm. in length. Figure 391. 
GALL. — Typical for the species, averaging rather large; rounded 
or flattened basally, occurring singly on the leaves of Quercus stellata 
and Q. floridana (or Q. Margarettal ) . 
RANGE. — Alabama: Athens (types). 5 miles south of Troy, and 
at Elmore (Kinsey coll.). 
Georgia: Henderson and Madison (Kinsey coll.). 
South Carolina: Bonneau (Kinsey coll.). 
Tennessee: Oakdale (Kinsey coll.). 
North Carolina: Hendersonville (Kinsey coll.). 
Ohio: Chillicothe (Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to a southern Appalachian area, from south- 
eastern Ohio into northern Georgia and Alabama. Figure 53. 
TYPES. — 13 females and 71 galls. Holotype and paratype females 
and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls in the 
American Museum of Natural History and the U.S. National Museum. 
Labelled Athens, Alabama; galls November 16, 1927; insects March 14, 
1928; Q. stellata; Kinsey collector. 
FIG. 53. TWO VARIETIES OF CYNIPS MELLEA 
Possible extensions of known ranges shown by shading,. 
