care must be taken that only one kind gets into a breeding cage* 
There ate 72 kinds listed herein which have never yet been reared* Fifty-eight 
of these are figured. They have been included under the respective oaks in the 
host index and also in the Notes on Illustrations. Described species are apt to 
have been the more conspicuous autumnal kinds which produce agamic females. 
Little collecting has been done, and that at one season only, o n Q . muehlenbergi i 
or Q. michauxii or on Q. prinoides . The early spring galls of Florida and the 
Gulf Coast are little known and it is here one would expect to find the alterna¬ 
ting form of the known agamic forms. These vernal forms complete their develop¬ 
ment in a few weeks at most and then dry up and disappear. The Genus Disholcaspis 
with a dozen species in the area is known from agamic females only which emerge 
in late fall from detachable stem galls oh white oaks. Where they oviposit is 
not known nor is the alternating generation for any one of the species known. 
Yet such an alternate undoubtedly exists in an entirely different sort of gall on 
young leaf, bud or flower. Life history problems of this sort can be worked out 
only by those who live year after year in the same place with ready access to 
native vegetation. 
On sunny days in spring just as the winter buds on the oaks are beginning to 
swell another sort of collecting may be had in an area where sprouts from stumps 
are a few feet high so that large buds are within easy reach. Females may be 
found ovipositing in these buds and may be picked off with the fingers. Keep 
those from each kind of oak separate (in vial of 70 % alcohol) , at least keep 
those from red oaks separate from those from white oaks* They may be run to 
genus in the key but not to species. The writer would like to see such* Cases 
are known where a species has been thus taken in numbers but the gall from which 
they came was not discovered nor was the gall which the oviposition produced* 
Buds in which females are ovipositing can be marked with a bit of colored string 
and visited later to see what developed* 
Still another kind of collecting is possible in early winter (late December 
or early January) on snow on sunny days when thawing has revealed scattered bare 
aeas. Several species have been "taken on snow." 
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