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Kentucky: Dawson Springs (gall, Kinsey coll.). 
Tennessee: Newport (Kinsey coll.). 
Missouri: 6 miles west of Dexter (Kinsey coll.). Springfield (R. 
Voris in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably thruout the Coastal Plain of the northeastern United 
States, from southern New York to North Carolina and Tennessee and 
in the Mississippi Valley from southern Indiana to Missouri. Figure 54. 
TYPES. — 2 females and 1 gall in the U.S. National Museum. From 
Asheville, North Carolina; collected October, 1886; reared February, 
1887 ; Q. alba; Ashmead collector. 
The present re-descriptions are made from these types compared 
with material from numerous localities in the Coastal Plain area. 
FIG. 54. COASTAL PLAIN VARIETY OF CYNIPS MELLEA 
Showing remnants of possibly more ancient Middle-Western range. 
This is the common eastern variety of the species, well 
known to all who have observed galls in the Atlantic Coastal 
Plain region. It occurs westward to the Great Smokies of 
the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary, and also at Newport, 
Tennessee, immediately west of the mountains. At higher 
elevations in the mountains themselves, from Ohio to northern 
Georgia and Alabama, variety litigans represents the species. 
In the heart of Georgia and Alabama, and at a few points 
further north, variety crassior, a close relative of Carolina, 
replaces the Coastal Plain variety. Extensive field work in 
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama failed to disclose Carolina 
