The North American species of Neuroterus and their galls, Beutenmuller

59.57.92N(7) Article X.- THE NORTH AMERICA~SPECIES OF NEUROTERUS AND 'l'HEIR GALLS By WILLIA2\f BEUTENMULLER PLATES VIII-XIII The paper constitut('s the seventh installment of a series of papers on North American and their which have been lished me in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural Beurotertlll Nellroterull HARTIG, Zeitsch fUr Ent., Vol II, 1840, p 18.'! l\1A YR, Gen Gallenb 1881, p 37; CRESSON, N Am., pt I, 1887, p 27; DALLA TORRE and KIEFFER, Gen Ins 1002, p 50; AsHMEAD, Vol X, 1003, p 151 Spathegaster HARTIG, Zeitsch fUr Ent., Vol II, 1840, p 186; MAYR, Gen Gallenb 3.7; AsHMEAD, Vol X, 1003, p 51 1869, p 333; Ameristm Verh Zool.-Bot Gesell \Vien, Vol Zool Reconl, 1869, p 322; MAYR, Gen Gallenb Cynip., 1881, 37 Jf(I1Ul!erlltjernia RADOSZKOWSKI, Bull Soc Nat Moscow, X}DClX, 1886, p.304; MAYS, Gen Gallenb 1881, p 37 Do,lic,lwlliroph.IU$ ASH~IEAD, Trans Am Ent Soc Vol XIV, 1887, p 129; Vol II, 1893, p 37 Vol X, 1003, p 151; DALLA TORRE, Cat or crackled Head, thorax and scutellum smooth, Thorax without grooves or with grooves Scutellum and with a distinct, broad, transverse groove at the base well rounded in the rnsle First and second Antennre 13-14-jointed in the fernsle, short and stout, third joint very and slender, joints gra.dulally ~~ornilllg shorter Abdomen and in the small and with a in the rnsle of the rnsle very shorter in the female and narrow, open or closed at the Areolet and distinct Cubitus exllendin,g to or to the first cross-vein smooth, delicate Claws or toothed Nel.lroterus Neurotertlll batatus quercus batatWI FITCH, 5th Nox Ins N Y Trans N Y Soc., 1858 (1859), p 810; THOMAS, Trans Ill Hort Soc., 1878 p.198; PACKARD, Bull 7, U S Ent Com., 1881, p 39; lith U S Ent Com., 1800, p 111 batatU8 OSTEN SACKE:S, Ent Zeit Stettin, 1861, pp 410, 414; Proc U S Ent Com., 1890, p Vol I, 1861, p 71; PACKARD,5th 117 Bulletin ATllerican Museum of Natural 113; BASSETT, Proc Ent Soc Phila., Vol III, 1864, p 684; Can Ent., Vol 18n, p 121; Trans Ent Soc Lond., 1873, p xx baialull OSTEN SACKEN, Proc Ent Soc Phila , Vol 1865, pp 340, 344, 350,353 Neuroterull baiatull MAYR, Gl:'n Gallenb 1881, p 37; ASHMEAD, Trans Am Ent Soc., Vol XII, 1885, p 296; ibid., Vol XIV, 1887, 132; Bull I, Col BioI Assoc., 1890, p 38; BEUTENMCLLER, Bull Am Mus Nat Vol IV, 1892, 262, Xlll, 1; Am Mus Journ., Vol IV., 1904, p 107, 41; Ins Galls N Y., 1904, p 21; 41; DALLA TORRE, Cat Vol II, 1893, p 40; BRODIE, Ann Forest Ontario, 1896, p 117, 3; DALLA TORRE and KIEFFER, Gen Ins Fam 1902, p 50; FELT, Ins Affect Park & Woodl Trees 1906, p 624 Female Head black, mil'rolICOI)ica,lly and mouth parts brown Antennre 16-JOlliltea, folllowing om~s brown Thorax black, Pa:mp>sid.al grooves Anterior linl:'s evident smooth, mi,~rosc('pi(:all.y reticulated, with a few scattered base Ilellllr:ll.ted from the thorax a smooth groove Abdomen black, smooth and brown, femora dark brown in the middle lIB are also the hind tibire veins brown, cross-veins Areolet to 2.2.') mrn Alaie Antennre 14-jointed Abdomen 1.25-2 mm 1-8.) On the terminal GaU (Plate VIII, of white oak (Quercull alba) Pol.ytllala,mo,us, hard, often reSleml)linlg a in much than broad, and often covered in summer and brown in winter a glaucous Habitat Canada; England and Middle States sou,tln'lal'd; Illinois; westward to Colorado There are two annual of N euroteru