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brevipennata, tho not as short as those of a Philonix. The 
hypopygial spine is a little smaller than in the other two varie- 
ties of the species. 
The Apache Trail country of Arizona, the region in which 
apache is to be found, seems to have a cynipid fauna largely 
distinct from that of adjacent areas both north and south of 
Globe and Phoenix, but I have no data on the extent of this 
area. 
Cynips villosa variety alaria (Weld) 
agamic form 
Figures 59, 341, 364, 407 
Acraspis alaria Weld, 1922, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 61 (18) : 13, 14. 
FEMALE. — Close to the varieties calvescens and villosa. Generally 
dark rufo-piceous, only the thorax (especially the scutellum) and the 
legs with some brighter rufous; head distinctly wider than the thorax, 
very finely, irregularly rugose; the thorax much reduced, half again as 
long as wide; parapsidal grooves very fine or nearly obliterated, ex- 
tending at most half way to the pronotum; scutellum rather smooth 
with a not heavy punctation, anteriorly depressed to form the undivided, 
poorly defined foveal groove; the ridge between the scutellum and the 
rest of the mesonotum only very poorly indicated; mesopleuron mostly 
punctate and very hairy; abdomen enlarged, rather elongate, entirely 
hairy on the sides of segments 2 to 5, not at all produced dorsally, the 
second segment not covering more than half the whole abdomen; the 
wings much reduced but relatively broad, about 0.32 of the body in 
length, reaching at most to the mid-point of the second abdominal seg- 
ment, the venation much reduced, only the subcosta and cross-veins well 
defined; length 2.5 to 3.7 mm. Figures 341, 364, 407. 
GALL. — Mature gall straw-yellow in color, up to 11.0 mm. in diam- 
eter, the spines up to 2.5 mm. in length, rather flexuous, slender, the 
whole gall appearing as a mass of coarse and tangled hairs; on the 
leaves of Quercus Gambelii, Q. submollis, and probably related oaks. 
RANGE. — Colorado: Colorado Springs (Pollock in U.S. Nat. Mus.; 
types). 
New Mexico: Raton Pass near Raton (F. Cogshall in Kinsey coll.). 
28 miles east of Raton (C. Schwachheim in Kinsey coll.). 
Probably restricted to a Rocky Mountain area in southern Colorado 
and northern New Mexico, probably not to be expected south of the 
Sandia Mountains in New Mexico. Figure 59. 
TYPES. — 13 females and galls. Holotype and 10 paratype females 
and 2 galls in the U.S. National Museum, Hopkins No. 10773x; a para- 
type female in the Kinsey collection. From Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
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