Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Philonix prinoides Ashmead in Smith, 1900, Cat. Ins. N.J. : 548. Beuten- 
miiller, 1909, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 26: 249, pi. 43 figs. 6, 7. 
Viereck, 1916, Hymen. Conn.: 382. Felt, 1918, N.Y. Mus. Bull. 200: 
94, fig. 89 (6, 7). Metcalf and Flint, 1928, Destructive and Useful 
Insects: 9, fig. 4 I. 
Cynips prinoides Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1902, Gen. Ins. Hymen. Cynip.: 
60. Beutenmiiller, 1904, Amer. Mus. Journ. 4: 103, fig. 32. Felt, 
1906, Ins. Aff. Pk. and Woodl. Trees 2: 619, 627. Stebbins, 1910, 
Springfield Mus. Nat. Hist. Bull. 2: 31, fig. 59. Dalla Torre and 
Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich 24: 442, 812, 835, figs. 188, 189. Lutz, 
1918, Fieldbook Ins.: 462, pi. 97 fig. 2. 
Philonyx prinoides Beutenmiiller in Smith, 1910, Ins. N.J.: 598. 
(?) Cynips prinoides Thompson, 1915, Amer. Ins. Galls: 15, 28. 
Acraspis prinoides Weld, 1922, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 61 (18) : 10, 14. 
Weld in Leonard, 1928, Ins. N.Y.: 971. 
FEMALE. — The head largely black, with considerable rufous about 
the compound eyes; most of the thorax a rich, not dark rufous; the 
mesonotum smoother and less hairy than in fuscata; the abdomen 
swollen cylindric, black; rather small insects, 2.3 to 3.5 mm., averaging 
under 3.0 mm. in length. Figures 344, 346, 414. 
GALL. — Averaging nearer 8.0 mm., altho up to 11.0 mm. in diam- 
eter; always monothalamous ; on leaves of Quercus prinoides, Q. Mich- 
auxii, Q. Muhlenbergii, and possibly other chestnut oaks. Figure 327. 
RANGE. — Massachusetts: Springfield (gall, acc. Stebbins 1910). 
Eastern part (bisex. form, Thompson in Bost. Soc. coll.). 
Connecticut: Waterbury (bisex. form, Bassett coll.). 
FIG. 62. NORTHEASTERN VARIETIES OF CYNIPS GEMMULA 
Possible extension of known range shown by shading. 
