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margins of segments 2 and 3 becoming rufescent. Punctures of dorsum 

 minute and close, on first segment extremely sparse and small. 



Habitat. — Las Cruces, New Mexico; two on sunflowers, October 6th, 

 1895. By its smooth surface it comes nearest to C. margaritensis, Fox, 

 but that is a smaller insect. 



Calliopsis Boy/ei, n. sp., ^ .—Length a little over 7 mm., very 

 slender, black with yellow marking*. Head somewhat broader than long; 

 antennae very long, entirely black ; face flattened, the clypeus not pro- 

 jecting ; entirely bright lemon-yellow nearly up to the level of the 

 antennae, the upper edge of the yellow straight right across the face, the 

 yellow projecting above this only for a short distance, very narrowly, on 

 orbital margins. The supraclypeal yellow area is about square. The 

 labrum is also yellow, as well as part of the mandibles without. There 

 is an impressed line down the middle of the clypeus, failing anteriorly. 

 Face with large scattered punctures, almost lacking on supraclypeal area 

 and close to the impressed line of clypeus ; front, vertex and cheeks 

 closely punctured. Pubescence of head and thorax sparse, tinged 

 yellowish ; anterior sides of clypeus with long white, very distinctly 

 plumose hairs. Mesothorax shining, with distinct, rather close punctures, 

 parapsidal grooves distinct. Scutellum with large, not very close, 

 punctures. Base of metathorax transversely wrinkled, the area behind 

 this not smooth, but minutely roughened. Sides of metathorax fringed 

 with hairs. Tubercles with a chrome-yellow spot, tegulse shining 

 testaceous. Wings yellowish-hyaline, nervures and stigma dark chestnut- 

 brown, costal nervures black, marginal cell unusually long, 2nd submar- 

 ginal narrowed one half to marginal. Legs black, with the knees, the 

 anterior tibiae in front, a spot at base and apex of middle tibite, nearly 

 the basal third and the apical eighth of hind tibiae, pale orange. Tarsi 

 pale orange, the terminal joints darkened. Claws long and curved, only 

 cleft at extreme tips. The hind legs are very long ; the middle tibiie are 

 very short, hardly half as long as the hind tibiae. Abdomen long and 

 slender, black, the bases of the segments after the first with a fine light 

 pile, very noticeable when the insect is held sideways. Dorsal surface of 

 abdomen, except the broad impressed apical margins of the segments, 

 finely and closely punctured, the punctures extremely small and close, 

 except on the first segment. 



Habitat. — Santa Fe, New Mexico ; Aug. 2nd, 1895 ; given to me by 

 V. Boyle, with the statement that it was caught on Cleoine serrulata. 



By its face-markings this resembles C. compositarum^ Rob., but it 

 differs at once from that in its less densely punctured mesothorax, and 

 the longer marginal cell. 



