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Vol. 95 Washington : 1944 , No. 3178 
NEW AMERICAN CYNIPIDS FROM GALLS 
By Lewis H. Wetp 
TWENTY-FIVE new species of American cynipids (Hymenoptera: 
Cynipidae) are described herein, together with a few notes on syn- 
onymy. One of the new species is an inquiline; the rest are gallmakers. 
Two of the latter are described from single reared specimens, but the 
galls are figured. One is from an unknown gall but is described from 
a large series of collected specimens, and paratypes are deposited in 
several institutions. Types of all are in the United States National 
Museum. 
Genus SAPHONECRUS Dalla Torre and Kieffer 
SAPHONECRUS FAVANUS, new species 
Female.—Head (except black vertex), antennae, most of meso- 
pleura, legs and basal region of abdomen reddish, other parts black. 
Head from above massive, broader than thorax, occiput concave, cori- 
aceous with scattered punctures; from in front broader than high, 
with radiating striae about mouth, malar space 0.7 eye. Antennae 
13-segmented, lengths as (scape) 12:6:15:12:11:11:10:10:10:10:- 
10:10: 22(6). Pronotum and mesonotum beautifully coriaceous, with 
scattered punctures bearing short appressed hairs. Parapsidal 
grooves percurrent. Anterior parallel and lateral lines depressed. 
Scutellum with a shallow sculptured groove at base, septum broad. 
Carinae on propodeum parallel. Abdomen longer than head plus 
thorax, collar striate, tergites II and III fused and covering the rest, 
its posterior third punctate, length to height to width as 38:25:17, 
STOgi2= 44a 
