Quercus virginiana 
Live Oak 
"Root" galls 
Belonocnema treatae Mayr. 555* Cluster of wedge-shaped, soft, fleshy 
yellowish galls, 12-19 mm. long on rootlets in March. Like Fig.56. 
Loxaulus pattersoni (Kinsey). 374. Slight swelling of small roots containing 
several clesely clustered spherical cells l.o mm. in dia. Gall 20 mm. 
long by 4 mm. wide or larger. Adults emerged Feb.9* Entered from lit. 
Odontocynips sp. Seen at Cuero,Tex. Gall similar to Fig. 38 . 
Cluster of pubescent galls attached to a large root. Fig*39* Boerne,Tex. 
Flower galls 
Acorn galls 
Separate cells inside a mature acorn 
Bud galls 
Andricus foliatus Ashm. 309. FigJ.ll. Cell in center of elongated,narrow 
bud scales, not deciduous. 
Terminal, hollow. Fig.l64. Seen at Austin,Tex. in Oct. 
Stem galls 
Woody stem swellings 
Callirhytis batatoides (Ashm.). 408. Fig.153* Abrupt swellings of twigs 
varying in form and size, many-celled. 
Detachable 
Disholcaspis cinerosa (Bass.). $39* Fig.142. Diameter 19-24 mm., covered 
witha a mealy gray powder which gradually weathers away. 
Disholcaspis fungiformis Kinsey. 540. Fig.298. A cluster of mushroom-shaped 
galls, the top a flattened cone, 7-1° mm. in dia. and 4 mm. high above 
a broad base in which is the larval cell. Tex. Entered from literature. 
Disholcaspis virens (Ashm.). 552. Fig.145. Cluster of hard,brown matte- 
surfaced galls crowded around a twig. 
Disholcaspis suscinipes (Ashm.). 350. Cluster of 5-20 crowded around a 
terminal twig. Globular, yellowish brown, surface like buckskin, hard, 
3-6 mm. in dia.. Entered from literature. 
Cells hidden under bark, some swelling 
Bassettia pallida Ashm. 381. Described from a single female from Savannah, 
Ga. Apr.15 without gall or host. Agreeing with type is a specimen from 
cells just under the bark of live oak in Fla. Fig.319* 
Small group of non-separable nested cells firmly fixed to matrix in a 
slightly hypertrophied twig. New Orleans, I&. 
Hard white cell which can be dug out intact from a slight twig swelling. 
New Orleans, La. Jan. 
Leaf galls 
Detachable 
Belonocnema fossoria Weld. 555. Fig.2J0. Tan.smooth, globular galla on 
under side of leaf in numbers in the fall. 
Belonocnema kinseyi Weld. 554. Similar to the above on live oak in Texas. 
Andricus laniger Ashm. 515. Fig.210. Woolly midrib cluster on under side. 
Neuroterus saLiatorius texanus Kinsey. 232. Fig.244.Adults out Mar.8.^ 
Neuroterus sp. In numbers, their dropping in April suggesting pattering 
rain. San Antonio, Tex. 
Integral 
Neuroterus minutissimus (Ashm.). 223* Small, 1.25-2.5 mm., covered with 
coarse, brown mossy pubescence, on under side in numbers in the fall. 
Neuroterus niger alimas Kinsey. 225. Fig.281. Adults Apr.16, Austin,Tex. 
Like gall of Andricus utricuius Ashm. Fig.274. Empty in Oct. Tex. 
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