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North Carolina: Chadbourn and Hendersonville (Kinsey coll.). 
Georgia: Acworth (types), Rome, and 6 miles north of Trion (Kin- 
sey coll.). Hartwell (galls, Kinsey coll.). 
Alabama: Athens and Pelham (Kinsey coll.). 
Probably confined to Q. stellata and its very close relatives (not 
Q. alba), occurring thruout Central Georgia and Alabama and in the 
Tennessee River Valley of Tennessee, northward into Southern Virginia 
and North Carolina. Possibly to be expected in the southern Ohio River 
Valley. Figure 55. 
TYPES. — 7 females and 20 galls. Holotype and paratype females 
and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype galls in the U.S. National 
Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. Labelled 
Acworth, Georgia; galls November 10, 1927; Q. stellata; Kinsey col- 
lector. 
My material of crassior represents mature galls collected as 
early as October 20 (1919) in western Virginia. I have in- 
sects bred during the first week in February, on March 14 and 
26, and on April 1 and 10. 
With its distinctly sculptured and prominently ridged scu- 
tellum, and with its large body, the insect of crassior is readily 
distinguished from Carolina, altho the two insects resemble 
each other in color. In western Virginia and probably in the 
western Carolinas, it may be expected that crassior hybridizes 
with Carolina. Crassior is distinctly a southern insect, chiefly 
of the lowlands. Thruout the southern mountains variety 
litigans represents the species. At several localities we found 
both crassior and litigans occurring on the same trees as dis- 
tinct insects or, on occasion, hybridizing. The galls of crassior 
are larger and always clustered while those of litigans occur 
singly on the leaves, so the two may be readily separated in 
the field. The galls of crassior are distorted from their nor- 
mally spherical shape by the pressure of the adjacent galls in 
the cluster, and they are consequently drawn out to a conical 
base. The single galls of litigans have rounded or even flat- 
tened bases. From the same area occupied by crassior, on 
Q. stellata, we have variety albicolens from Q. alba. 
Cynips mellea variety albicolens, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 56, 396 
FEMALE. — Body almost entirely black, with almost no rufous on 
the head; the antennae dark brown, only the first two segments rufous; 
mesonotum more or less smooth, rather sparsely punctate and hairy; 
