No. 3659 SCOLIIDAE—-KROMBEIN 5 
and on part (female) or all (male) of the abdomen distinguish this 
handsome species at a glance from other Melanesian members of the 
subgenus Laevicampsomeris. 
The female runs to couplet 8 of my key (Krombein, 1963, p. 558). 
It has spatulate hind tibial spurs and moderately dense punctures on 
scutellum and postscutellum. This combination of characters coupled 
with the distinctive vestiture separate it from nigerrima (Smith) and 
solomonis Krombein, the two species keyed out in that couplet. 
The male keys to couplet 9. It is separated from laglaizei Betrem 
and the species keying out in the subsequent couplet, solomonis and 
bonguensis Betrem, by a combination of characters such as the pale 
erect vestiture, lack of a propodeal tubercle, moderately dense punc- 
tation of the propodeal dorsum, and small yellow mark opposite the 
posteroventral margin of the eye. The genitalia, as is true in all 
Melanesian Laevicampsomeris, afford no differentiating characters. 
Houotyrr.—@, Karimui, south of Goroka, Eastern Highlands 
Dist., Terr. New Guinea, 1000 meters, 6 June 1961, J. L. and M. 
Gressitt, Bishop Museum. 
Length 29 mm, forewing 24 mm. Integument black; wings fuscous, 
the forewing with purplish reflections. Erect vestiture brown to black 
on clypeus, vertex, dorsum of thorax including scapulae, terga three 
to six, and sterna five and six, whitish with an ocherous cast on front, 
sides, and venter of head, sides and venter of thorax, legs, and first 
and second abdominal segments; appressed preapical fringes of sterna 
two to four pale, apical fringes on sterna dark except for a few pale 
intermixed setae on second; sides and venter of thorax with abundant, 
silvery, sericeous pubescence. 
Clypeus contiguously punctate except middle; area frontalis, spa- 
tium frontale, and a narrow strip on lower half of front between eyes 
densely and coarsely punctate; vertex and occiput densely and coarsely 
punctate except for a longitudinal median strip on vertex; setae 
arising from frontal, vertexal and occipital punctures coarse, erect 
and moderately long. 
Scapulae, and anterior and lateral areas of scutum with dense, 
small punctures bearing conspicuous, erect setae, the impunctate 
median space on posterior half of scutum about a third as wide as 
scutal width and with a few scattered larger punctures; scutellum, 
postscutellum, and propodeal dorsum with subcontiguous punctures 
except for a narrow median strip; propodeum not tuberculate. 
Posterior areas of terga and sterna shining; terga two to four mat 
on anterior two-thirds. 
Legs with spurs of hind tibia spatulate at apex as in bonguensis, 
the longer one two-thirds as long as basitarsus. 
AuLotyPpr.—o’, Karimui, 3 June 1961, J. L. and M. Gressitt, in 
Malaise trap, Bishop Museum. 
