The species of Amphibolips and their galls, Beutenmuller

59.lI7.92A Art.iole VI.- SPECIES OF AMPHIBOLIPS AND GALLS By WILLIAM BEUTENMti'LLER PLATES X-XV The genus All~p'tib distinct PleurlP mgose Abdomen reddish brown, minutely pUllctate with a few hairs at the base of the-second segment A~rtpjlib@:etller, half as long as the third, short, last a little than thE" twelfth Mesothorax and wrinkled with two obscure lines and a line at the base of each grooves faint lind " >1, 1'" int;erl~uflt the of the surface Scutellum very coarsely wrinkled and L'l much broader in the middle than on the anterior side, truncate and errlargillHte line them and a fovere rugose with a low ridge them at the sides, the whole lind Abdomen black, second segment one-half of the whole, anterior half smooth and and with a few scattered hairs Thl' half and the visible parts of the other segments reticulated or punctate, except a narrow band on the margin of each black, with a few scattered hairs dark, brown, with a very dark brown cloud covering the areolet and the lower half of the radialnrea; this nnd eXlemling llcniss the radial area to almost the posterior margin is a light colorll'ss spot atHl the anterior margin from the dark, broad first cross-vein to a short distance the second cross-vein is of the sam(~ color; of wing the spot, dark brown as below this spot Areolet very small, but well definl'd Radial area open, large and broad 6.5 mm 0/ AmphitUJred at on a terminal bud of a shoot of a of white oak The is in the American ~n:tOlnoJlogJ,cal ~"'~'.J' ua.:"'lCI••, ADlphibollips verna Bassett Ar,rtp}1w.>li1)$ verna BASllETr, Trans Am Ent Vol XXVI, 1900, p 3'21; TORRE and KIEFFER, Gen Ins Fam 1902, p 68 Female Head small, rugose, black Antennle black, first stout, second one-half as as the third a little than the first and second and curved, fourth two-thirds, and the fifth one-half as as the third, sixth to thirteenth fourteenth one half than the thirteenth Thorax small, rugose and covered with short hairs Anterior lines more than half way to the scutellum grooves very obscure and the lines over the base of the rather less so, all short Scutellum rugose, Fovela shallow and not smooth Abdomen black, and punctate, as is also the pOllterior of the last segment and the sheath of the uniform dark red fuscous, veins reddish not Areolet and nearer the anterior than in most Cubitus the first cross-vein 4.50mm Habitat: Connecticut (W'atl~rb'I1rY')' DALLE known a the buds of scrub oak (Q'!