Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 347 
hard gall. Never having been exposed to light and open air 
it is much paler than flies that emerge normally. Had it 
darkened up normally the two adjacent spots near the apex of 
the wing might have become connected into one double one as 
is the case in nubila , a series of which shows considerable dif- 
ference in the amount of fusion that has taken place in the 
spots, due either to fluctuating variation or to the length of 
time that has elapsed or amount of exposure to light since 
emergence from the gall. If a nubila wing were bleached 
somewhat it would present the condition seen in incomptus.” 
My own distinction of nubila and incompta is herein em- 
bodied in comparative descriptions, an examination of which 
should show that it will take more than bleaching to turn 
nubila into incompta . While admitting the inadequacies of 
two specimens cut from old galls, and while admitting that 
fresh material may be larger and darker than the types, I 
cannot believe that the surface of the mesonotum, the length 
of the parapsidal grooves, the surfaces of the mesopleuron, 
the hairy areas on the abdomen, the size of the areolet, or 
other such distinctive characters are abnormal in the type 
material of incompta. The galls of incompta and nubila , while 
similar, are certainly distinct in color and, more significantly, 
in the shapes of the bases of the spines. 
The types of incompta come from a locality removed from 
the known range of nubila by eight hundred miles of Mexican 
desert and mountain country. This alone should have invited 
careful comparisons before it was concluded that the two 
names are synonyms. 
Cynips (Acraspis) villosa (Gillette) 
agamic forms 
FEMALE. — Thorax of normal size or much reduced in size; the 
mesonotum rugoso-punctate anteriorly, smoother posteriorly (in long- 
winged varieties) or entirely rugoso-punctate and very hairy (in short- 
winged varieties); parapsidal grooves continuous or discontinuous, nearly 
obliterated in short- winged varieties; anterior parallel lines wholly 
punctate, poorly defined; lateral lines smooth, naked, broad, or all lines 
obliterated in short- winged varieties; median groove absent; scutellum 
more or less rugose, rather flattened, a bit depressed on the median line, 
the foveal depression smooth to finely rugose at bottom; mesopleuron 
mostly punctate and hairy, with a more naked area centrally; abdomen 
