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near Natural Bridge Station (gall, Kinsey coll.). Winchester (Kinsey 
coll.). 
North Carolina: Asheville (Ashmead in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Kentucky: Livingston (gall, Q. Michauxii, Kinsey coll.). 
Indiana: Nashville ( Q . Michauxii, Kinsey coll.). 
Michigan: Agricultural College (Gillette? in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Kansas: state (acc. Bridewell 1899). St. George (in U.S. Nat. 
Mus.). 
Probably confined to the chestnut oaks in a more northeastern area 
of the United States and Canada, at least from Connecticut to Indiana, 
perhaps westward to Missouri. The Atlantic Coastal Plain, the more 
southern, and the most western records given above need further ex- 
amination when the bisexual adults become known. Figure 73. 
FIG. 73. CYNIPS HIRTA VARIETY ON CHESTNUT OAKS 
TYPES. — 6 females, a number of galls, and other specimens not. 
distinguished from the true types in Bassett’s collection. Holotype and 
5 paratype females and galls in the Philadelphia Academy; paratype 
insects and galls in the American Museum of Natural History, the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the U.S. National Museum; para- 
type galls in the Kinsey collection. From Waterbury, Connecticut; 
October; Q. montana (= Q. Prinus of authors) ; H. F. Bassett collector. 
The present re-descriptions are based on the holotype and most of 
the paratype material. 
PARASITES . — Eurytoma auriceps Walsh (acc. Walsh 1870). 
E. studiosa Say (acc. Walsh 1870). 
This is the chestnut oak variety of the species, originally 
described from Q. Prinus and now recorded from Q. Michauxii . 
