DISHOLCASPIS BREVINOTA. new species.

Host. — Quercus breviloba Sargent.

Gall. — A bullet gall at base of sprouts similar to those of Disholcaspis terrestris Weld on Quercus stellata Wangenheim [D terrestris description: Globular bullet galls up to 17 mm. in diameter in clusters on runner sprouts or sprouts from stumps at surface of ground hidden by loose debris. When fresh finely mottled with red, but when dry almost uniformly red and finely wrinkled. Inside is a distinct thin- walled central cell in the center of spongy brown tissue.]

Type locality. — Austin, Texas. Collected a few galls October 30, 1917. Cut out three living flies and one pupa November 13. Collected galls also at Boerne, Texas, October 27, and one gall opened on that date contained a pupa which transformed before November 10. The normal emergence is probably in the late fall.

Disholcaspis brevinota

Quercus breviloba
"Root" galls
A bullet gall, usually single, at base of sprouts in fall.

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A bullet gall on Q breviloba usually single at base of sprouts