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 Mesopolobus fasciiventris Westwood (= Pteromalus fasciculatus Förster) (acc. Ratzeburg 1848). Emerges in November of the same year (acc. Mayr 1903).

Ormyrus punctiger Westwood (acc. Mayr 1904).

O. tubulosus Fonscolombe (acc. Wachtl 1876). Emerges in June of the following year (acc. Mayr 1904). Emerges in that March (acc. Wachtl 1876).

Porizon claviventris Giraud (acc. Mayr-Fitch 1876).

Pteromalus jucundus Förster (acc. Ratzeburg 1848).

Syntomaspis sapphyrina (Boheman) (= S. caudata (Nees)) (Brischke 1882 acc. Kieffer 1899).

Torymus abdominalis Boheman (incl. T. cingulatus (Nees?)) (acc. Mayr 1874). Emerges in August of the same year (acc. Wachtl 1876).

T. auratus (Fourcroy) (acc. Kieffer 1899).

T. azureus Boheman (= T. chalybaeus Ratzeburg) (acc. Blösch 1903).

T. elegans Boheman (acc. Mayr-Fitch 1876).

T. flavipes (Walker) (acc. Dalla Torre 1898).

T. incertus Förster (acc. Ratzeburg 1848).

T. nigricornis Boheman (= T. regius Nees and Callimome inconstans Walker). Emerges in October of the same year into the summer of the following year (acc. Mayr 1874). Emerges in March (acc. Wachtl 1876).

There are several errors in previously published lists of parasites, due to confusion caused by Mayr's earlier use of the name folii for what is now known as pubescentis (q.v.).

This is the well-known, Central European variety of folii, recorded from nearly every locality where Cynipidae have been collected in that area, and described as sometimes covering many of the leaves of certain trees. Kieffer recorded (1901:184) an average of six galls for each of seven leaves, and as many as sixteen galls on a single leaf; and Connold (1908) found as many as twelve galls per leaf in southern England. This has been called the “cherry gall” in England, and its size and abundance, and the bright red colors of the fresh gall have made it an object of some popular as well as widespread scientific interest.

The young galls of the agamic folii appear in early summer, as early as mid-June (acc. Schlechtendal 1870) or early July (acc. Adler 1881) in Germany. Galls collected in northern England on August 15 (1927, Anderson in Kinsey coll.) were still not mature. The galls are full-sized by the end of August in England (acc. Connold 1908), altho the larval insects are still very small at that time. Pupation may occur late in September (material from Moravia, Baudys in Kinsey