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are Calisiopsis ampliceps Champion, 1898, the other two species 

 are here described as new. 



Calisiopsis ampliceps Champion, 1898 



FiGTJRE 17 



Caliosiopsis ampliceps Champion, 1898, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Cen- 

 tral!- Americana, vol. 2, p. 67, pi. 5, figs. 4, 4a, 4b. 



Heretofore known only from the female. 



Male: Head shorter than wide through the eyes (33:47); anterior 

 process scarcely longer than wide at the base (18:17); the proportions 

 of the antennal segments (1 to 4) are 5:3:3:13, the 4th segment being 

 longer than the three precedmg segments together. Seen from the 

 front, only one-third of the eye is above the level of the vertex. 

 Pronotum very short (35:78); scutellum much longer than wide at 

 the base (101:67); abdomen longer than wide (110:92). 



Size: Total length 3.23 mm.; width of pronotum 1.23 mm.; width 

 of abdomen 1.53 mm. 



Specimen examined: Allotype male, Tomazunchale, Mexico, Apr. 

 3, 1946, on orchid plants; in the U. S. National Museum. 



Calisiopsis minutus, new species 



Figure 18 



Female: Similar to Calisiopsis ampliceps Champion, 1898, but dis- 

 tinctly smaller and more yellowish; scutellum more whitish, the four 

 (2 + 2) white spots fused together; the few scattered big granules 

 on the disc of the scutellum are almost obliterated; eyes relatively 

 smaller; the infraocular shelves less depressed; but the main differ- 

 ence is in the 4th antennal segment, which is slightly shorter than 

 the three preceding antennal segments together (10:11), the propor- 

 tions of the segments (1 to 4) being: 5:3:3:10. (See figs. 16, 17 and 

 18.) Other proportions are: head 35:43; pronotum 30:61 ; scutellum 

 80:57; abdomen 83:80. 



Color: Yellow, with a fine whitish incrustation; eyes brown; some 

 of the tubercles on the pronotum and five small tubercles in the 



j middle of the lateral borders of the scutellum piceous; the basal 



I triangle and tip of the scutellum, and two or three tubercles of each 



i connexivum, pale brown. 



1 Size: Total length 2.93 mm.; width of pronotum 1.02 mm.; width 



fj of abdomen 1.33 mm. 



I Holotype: Female (USNM 64208), Tampico, Mexico, December 



i 28, E. A. Schwarz. 



t Paratype: Female, same data as holotype, in collection of the 



i author. 



