new s;pecies of Scoliidce. 453 



Allied to C. Iris, St. Farg., and C. aurulenta, Smith ; 

 the male differs from both in the first segment of the 

 abdomen being hardly constricted, while in the female 

 C. Iris is distinguished by having only four pale bands 

 on the abdomen, and C. aurulenta by wanting the sub- 

 apical patch. 



Campsomeris Whitelyi, n. s. (PI. XV., fig. 6). 



Long. cori3. 22 mm. ; exp. al. 41 mm. 



5 . Black ; antennae inclining to pitchy ; mandibles red. Head 

 and thorax clothed with shaggy hair, which is yellowish grey in 

 front and grey behind. Punctuation scanty, and almost confined 

 to the neighbourhood of the ocelli, the front and sides of the 

 mesothorax, the post-scutellum, and the metathoras. Abdomen 

 with the first segment black, shining, clothed with shaggy grey 

 hair ; segments 2 and 3 velvety black in front and bright yellow 

 behind, the yellow portion exhibiting a straight transverse dividing 

 line before its extremity, and swelling out on each side in front ; 

 segment 4 with a yellow band before the extremity ; segments 

 3 — 5 with a fringe of yellow hairs at the base ; segment 6 reddish, 

 especially at the extremity, and with a basal fringe of very dark 

 red hairs ; coarsely but not deeply punctured. Abdomen beneath 

 shining black, with fringes of grey hairs at the base of the seg- 

 ments, and generally with two transverse rows of punctures 

 running between them, the latter with long hairs springing from 

 them towards the sides ; the fringe at the base of the sixth 

 segment is yellowish. Legs black, clothed with long grey hair ; 

 the tarsi and their spines, the terminal tibial spines, and the hollow 

 beneath the femora are more or less reddish. "Wings yellowish 

 hyaline, with ferruginous nervures ; costa dark rusty brown nearly 

 to the middle, and then suffused with ferruginous as far as the 

 cells extend. 



^ah. Tambo Valley, Peru (Whitely). 



Closely allied to C. limosa, Burm., from California 

 and Mexico. 



Campsomeris hivittata, n. s. (PI. XV., fig. 5). 

 Long. Corp. 17 — 21 mm. ; exp. al. 31 — 38 mm. 



^ . Stout; black, with cinereous hair, everywhere closely punc- 

 tured, with no smooth spaces even in the middle of the mesothorax 

 or at the base of the metathorax ; abdomen with segments 2 and 3 

 yeUow above on the hinder two-thirds, the yellow bands being 



