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Cynips gemmula variety suspeeta, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 62, 369, 413 
FEMALE. — Head entirely black; the thorax dull rufo-piceous (either 
lighter or darker), the mesonotum only microscopically roughened and 
the whole thorax nearly naked of hairs; the abdomen swollen cylindric, 
entirely black, naked except for a very few hairs on the second segment 
basally; small insects 1.5 to 2.7 mm. in length. Figures 369, 413. 
GALL. — Not distinct from that of variety gemmula; monothala- 
mous; on leaves of Quercus Michauxii (and probably other chestnut 
oaks). 
RANGE. — Indiana: Bloomington (types, C. M. Kinsey coll.). 
Probably ranging from southern Indiana to southern Michigan, as 
far north as chestnut oaks occur. Figure 62. 
TYPES. — 24 females. Galls not distinguished from agamic galls 
of Cynips gemmula gemmula from the same locality. Holotype and 
paratype females in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females in the 
U.S. National Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. 
Labelled Bloomington, Indiana; galls September 27, October 19, and 
November 7, 1928; insects December 1, 8, 10, and 18, 1928; Q. Michauxii; 
C. M. Kinsey collector. 
Among the insects of the hybrid variety gemmula collected 
at Bloomington in southern Indiana, we have the very small, 
dark, nearly naked specimens which we are taking for the 
types of suspeeta. In the discussion under gemmula ( q. v.) 
we have suggested that these may represent segregates from 
the hybrid variety gemmula. Extreme individuals of suspeeta 
are so distinct from typical gemmula that they demand taxo- 
nomic recognition, whether we ultimately find them to corre- 
spond with the northern variety which was one parent of 
gemmula (with variety fuscata as the other parent) or 
whether we have to take suspeeta as a Mendelian form. For 
further discussion, see the account of gemmida. 
The type insects of suspeeta emeregd on December 1, 8, 10, 
and 18 (all in 1928). 
Cynips gemmula variety gemmula 
(== C. gemmula suspeeta x fuscata?) 
agamic form prinoides Beutenmiiller 
Figures 62, 327, 344, 346, 414 
Cynips (?) prinoides Beutenmiiller, 1892, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
4: 257, pi. 11 fig. 6. Felt, 1912, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 155: 130. 
