Callirhytis patiens (Bassett).

Conn.

Ecology: Taken ovipositing in buds of Quercus ilicifolia; never reared and gall unknown. This may be a synonym of [Callirhytis] parvula.

Andricus patiens Bassett, 1900. Amer. Ent. Soc., Trans. 26: 312, ♀.

Andricus patiens n. sp.

Fifty or more individuals captured in early Spring in the act of ovipositing in the buds of Q. ilicifolia. They were taken when the temperature was so low that a heavy overcoat was needed to keep one comfortable, and a stiff northeast wind prevailed, and the buds showed no signs of life.

These insects must be strangely insensible to cold, or be driven by an irresistible impulse to deposit their eggs, or they would not brave such inclement weather.