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touch of rufous; the legs dark rufous; the abdomen piceous black, dark 
rufous to rufo-piceous on the second segment basally; the mesonotum 
fairly naked, with or without scattered punctation, shagreened to evenly 
coriaceous posteriorly, finely rugose anteriorly; wings averaging about 
0.22 of the body in length; moderate sized insects 1.5 to 3.2 mm. in 
length. Figures 3, 348, 352, 420. 
GALL.— -Known from both the naked and spiny forms; on leaves 
of Quercus alba. Figures 4, 312-315, 328, 331. 
RANGE. — Ontario: Toronto (acc. Cosens 1912; also Brodie in U.S. 
Nat. Mus.) . 
Maine: Kezar Falls (Mrs. D. Tenney in Kinsey coll.). 
FIG. 68. NORTHEASTERN VARIETY OF C. PEZOMACHOIDES 
A highly variable species apparently of hybrid origin dating from Pleistocene meeting 
of more northern and more southern varieties. 
New Hampshire: Exeter, Alton Bay, and Dover (Mrs. D. Tenney 
in Kinsey coll.). Stratham (gall, Mrs. D. Tenney in Kinsey coll.). 
Massachusetts: Forest Hills (Kinsey coll.). Framingham (C. A. 
Frost in Kinsey coll.). Springfield (galls acc. Stebbins 1910). 
Connecticut: Waterbury (Bassett in Kinsey coll.). Stamford 
(Bartlett acc. Felt 1921: 73). 
New York: Buffalo (Moeser acc. Gillette 1896). Waterport and 
Ithaca (galls, acc. Weld 1926). Syracuse (galls, Crosby acc. Weld 
1926). Penn Yan and Albany (acc. Weld 1926). New York City (gall 
in Amer. Mus. and Kinsey coll.). Oakwood (W. T. Davis in Kinsey 
coll.). 
New Jersey: Ft. Lee and New Brunswick (Beutenmiiller in Amer. 
Mus. and Kinsey coll.). Ft. Lee (gall, Beutenmiiller in Amer. Mus.). 
