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Similis Bassett, 1890, Trans Amer. Ent. Soc. 17 : 71. Dryophanta 
in orig. publ. Dryophanta or Diplolepis of most later authors. Name 
pre-occupied, and therefore changed to simillima by Dalla Torre. I 
have seen the holotype, in the Philadelphia Academy, and several para- 
types. The insect is close to ebumeus Bassett and is ruled out of true 
Cynips on the same basis. See ebumeus in this list. 
Simillima Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen. 2: 54. New name for 
similis Bassett (q.v.). 
Splendens Weld, 1919, Canad. Ent. 51:254. Andricus in orig. publ. 
Diplolepis in later publications of the same author. I have seen the 
holotype in the National Museum and numerous paratypes. The hypopy- 
gial spine is very slender and without a terminal tuft of hairs, and the 
wing venation is rather fine. The galls are hollow urns with the larval 
cell at bottom. The agamic insects delay emergence until March or 
April. These are not Cynips characters. 
Sulcata Forster, 1869, Verh. zoo.-bot. Ges. Wien 19:335. Liodora 
in orig. publ. Dryophanta of later authors. Kieffer (1901, Andre 
Hymen. Europe 7 (1) : 620) considered this a synonym of Cynips folii 
folii form taschenbergi. I consider the name unrecognizable. See the 
discussion under taschenbergi in the body of this paper. 
Sulphurea Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10): 33. Diplolepis 
in orig. publ. I have seen the holotype at the National Museum. The 
hypopygial spine is long, very slender, and without a terminal tuft of 
hairs. The gall is a hollow cone with the larval cell at the bottom. 
These are not Cynips characters. 
Tecturnarum Kinsey, 1920, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42:312, pi. 
25 fig. 30-33. Andricus in orig. publ. Diplolepis in Weld 1926: 34. 
I have recently re-examined cotypes The hypopygial spine is very 
slender and without a terminal tuft of hairs, and the wing venation is 
rather fine. The galls are hollow urns with the larval cell at bottom, 
and they occur in dense clusters on the leaves. None of these are 
Cynips characters. The insects should not have been transferred to 
Diplolepis (= Cynips ) . 
Tenuicornis Bassett, 1881, Canad. Ent. 13:92. Cynips in orig. publ. 
Holcaspis, Loxaulis , and Bassettia of latter assignments. Diplolepis in 
Weld 1926. I have seen the types. The agamic insect has the mesono- 
tum conspicuously coriaceous, the abdomen opaque and rough as ground 
glass, the hypopygial spine rather short, not fine but not broadened 
anywhere, without a terminal tuft of hairs. These are not true Cynips 
characters. The galls are polythalamous, wool-covered, hemispherical 
masses as different as leaf galls might be from true Cynips galls. 
Texana Ashmead, 1887, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 14: 145. Dryophanta 
in orig. publ. Dryophanta or Diplolepis of most authors. I have seen 
the holotype in the National Museum. Weld has placed this material 
under Trigonaspis in the Museum’s collection, and I agree with this 
assignment. A bisexual Trigonaspis is larger than a bisexual Cynips , 
