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Cynips mellea variety Carolina (Ashmead) 
agamic form 
Figures 54, 292-293, 334, 348, 394 
Dryophanta Carolina Ashmead, 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 14: 128, 
145. Cresson, 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 14: suppl. 310. Ash- 
mead in Packard, 1890, 5th Rpt. U.S. Ent. Comm.: 109. Dalla 
Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen. 2 : 49. Kieffer, 1901, Andre Hymen. 
d’Europe 7 (1) : 621. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. 
Hymen. Cynip.: 52. Beutenmiiller in Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J.: 599. 
Thompson, 1915, Amer. Ins. Galls: 12, 37. Felt, 1918, N.Y. Mus. 
Bull. 200: 78, fig. 97 (4). 
Biorhiza mellea err. det. Beutenmiiller, 1909 (N.J. record only), Bull. 
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 26: 245, pi. 42, fig. 3, 4. Beutenmiiller in 
Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J.: 598. Felt, 1918, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 200: fig. 
84 (3-4). Err. det. Wells, 1921, Bot. Gaz. 71: pi. 22 Cynipid 14. 
Diplolepis Carolina Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich 24: 365, 
813. Weld, 1926 (in small part), Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 22. 
Cynips mellea var. B Kinsey, 1927, Field and Lab. Manual in Biol.: 109. 
FEMALE. — In general color reddish rufous and black; the apical 
halves of the antennae rufo-brown, whole basal halves rufous, the first 
two segments lighter rufous; mesonotum very sparingly punctate and 
hairy, almost entirely smooth and shining posteriorly, more roughened 
anteriorly and laterally; anterior parallel and lateral lines barely indi- 
cated, slightly raised, rather broad; median groove more or less evident 
but indefinite; scutellum hardly longer than broad, coarsely rugose, its 
median ridge rather prominent at least anteriorly where it divides the 
foveal groove; foveae broad, sparsely rugose at bottom; abdomen bright 
rufous, slightly darker rufous in places, distinctly longer than high, the 
second segment distinctly tongue-shaped, covering almost three-quarters 
of the whole abdomen; legs, including the coxae, mostly bright rufous; 
wings long, about 1.30 times the body length; areolet of moderate size 
or smaller; cloud on the first abscissa of the radius of moderate size; 
tip of the radius hardly enlarged; body generally slender and light in 
weight, length 2.6 to 3.2 mm., distinctly smaller than other varieties. 
Figures 348, 394. 
GALL. — Woolly when young, becoming naked when mature, then 
light pinkish brown in color; averaging smaller than variety crassior; 
usually drawn out to a conical base; usually clustered, on the leaves of 
Quercus alba and Q. stellata. Figures 292-293, 334. 
RANGE. — New York: Nyack (Zabriskie in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
New Jersey: Fort Lee and Lakehurst (acc. Beutenmiiller 1910). 
Richland and Carmel (Kinsey coll.). 
Virginia: Eastville and Cape Charles (Kinsey coll.). 
North Carolina: Asheville (Ashmead, types) . Maysville, Marshall, 
and Cherokee (Kinsey coll.). 
