Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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The original spelling of the name of this variety should have 
been acraspidiformis, if we are to follow the declension of the 
Latin aspis, aspidis; but as the Rules stand, we accept the 
published spelling. 
Cynips villosa variety expositor, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 59, 301-302, 326, 340, 362, 401 
FEMALE. — Mostly bright rufous, even on the antennae and the 
legs including the coxae; the mesonotum darker to black anteriorly be- 
tween the parapsidal grooves and about the lateral lines, the abdomen 
rufous and in part rufous brown; head fully as wide as the thorax, 
finely, irregularly shagreened or coriaceous; thorax of moderate size, 
rather slender, three-quarters again as long as wide; parapsidal grooves 
more or less complete altho indefinite anteriorly; scutellum only finely 
rugose, smoother and much depressed anteriorly, with a very broad, 
rather deep foveal groove which is only very finely rugose at bottom 
and without a trace of a division into foveae; mesopleuron mostly 
smooth, in places closely punctate, a more smooth and naked area cen- 
trally; abdomen naked except for the patches latero-basally, not strongly 
produced dorsally, the second segment rather tongue-shaped, extending 
three-quarters of the way to the posterior tip of the abdomen; the 
wings long, about 1.30 times the body length; the infuscation on the 
first abscissa of the radius large, extending a third the length of the 
radial cell and almost as dark as the vein itself; areolet of moderate 
size or a little larger; length 3.2 to 3.5 mm. Figures 340, 362, 401. 
GALL. — Mature galls yellow-brown in color, up to 8.5 mm., aver- 
aging nearer 6.0 mm. in diameter; the spines up to 4.0 mm. in length, 
rather flexuous, slender, the bases up to 0.4 mm. in diameter, but the 
spine very slender right down to this base; the whole appearing as a 
tangled mass of coarse hairs; on leaves of Quercus grisea and Q. 
arizonica. Figures 301-302, 326. 
RANGE. — Texas: Alpine (types; Q. grisea , Kinsey coll.). 
New Mexico: Soledad Canyon in Organ Mts. (galls, Q. arizonica; 
L. H. Bridewell in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably restricted to the desert mountain areas of West Texas and 
immediately adjacent areas in New Mexico. Figure 59. 
TYPES. — 4 females and 8 galls. Holotype and paratype females 
and galls in the Kinsey collection. Galls in the American Museum of 
Natural History and the U.S. National Museum. Labelled Alpine, 
Texas; December 14, 1919; Q. grisea; Kinsey collector. 
The galls collected in the Organ Mts., New Mexico, on 
August 23 (1927) were too young to breed. The last adults 
