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Length 24 mm, forewing 20 mm. Integument mostly black, the 
dorsum of thorax and abdomen with weak blue reflections; the follow- 
ing creamy to yellowish: clypeus above and broadly on sides, narrow 
strip along inner eye margin to ocular sinus, short stripe adjacent to 
posteroventral eye margin, and apical half of foredistitarsus; wings 
fuscous, the forewing anteriorly with darker streak. Head, thorax, 
legs, and abdomen clothed with erect white setae except for a few 
intermixed dark setae on vertex and scutum, and the sixth and 
seventh terga with all dark setae; silvery sericeous pubescence on 
sides of thorax very conspicous, longer and denser than in female. 
Propodeum with denser, larger punctures than in bonguensis, those 
on dorsal surface separated from each other by about the diameter of a 
puncture, tubercle absent; genitalia as in bonguensis (Krombein, 1963, 
p. 597, fig. 18). 
PARATYPE.—1 <’, same data as holotype, but 5 June 1961, J. L. and 
M. Gressitt, in light trap, USNM. The paratype is 25 mm long and 
agrees with the allotype in vestiture, punctation, and coloration. 
Couplets 9 and 10 of my key may be expanded to include the males of 
these additional species of Laevicampsomeris as follows: 
9. Median area of dorsal surface of propodeum with a distinct tubercle posteri- 
orly, most of punctures on this area large and contiguous to subcon- 
tiguous ... Sixes See OS 
Median area of dorsal Shei of pueondeumn noe foberculats most of punc- 
tures on this area finer and separated by more than the diameter of a 
puncture except in papuana and solomonis .. . ¢ hockae see 
9a. Side of clypeus with narrow yellow streak; pieeedenl pUNeration denser 
on dorsum in ne many of punctures contiguous; New Guinea, 
Waigeu. «7. . -.. . . .Campsomeris laglaizei Betrem 
Clypeus entirely Bick: Poronodcal punctation slightly sparser on dorsum 
in middle, many of punctures separated from each other by about half 
the diameter of a puncture; New Guinea, Misool, New Britain. 
Campsomeris nigerrima (Smith) 
10. Head, thorax, and most of abdomen with long, erect white hair; punctures 
on dorsum of median area of propodeum larger and denser, usually 
separated by no more than the diameter of a puncture; New Guinea. 
Campsomeris papuana, new species 
Erect hair almost entirely dark; propodeal ees finer and more sepa- 
rated except in solomonis. . . . 3 Ae peer LO) 
10a. Clypeus with a narrow yellow stripe lone fateral mere prooedaal punc- 
tation fine and well separated; New Guinea. 
ee ae bition Betrem 
Clypeus entirely black . .... sap ee aeyelOb 
10b. Foredistitarsus with a small yellowish spot Deane on median area of 
propodeal dorsum finer and shallower, many of them separated by more 
than the diameter of a puncture; New Ireland. 
Campsomeris brandti Krombein 
Foredistitarsus black; punctures on median area of propodeal dorsum 
coarser, many of them separated by less than the diameter of a puncture; 
Solomon Islands. . .... .. . . Campsomeris solomonis Krombein 
