THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF PERINEURA. 



BY ALEX. D. MACGII.LIVRAY, ITHACA, N.Y. 



The Abbe Provancher described two species of Synairema from 

 North America, one from the Atlantic region and one from the Pacific 

 region; a second species, from the Pacific region, is described below. The 

 genus Synairema is considered as a synonym of Perineura, by Kirby. 



1. Tlie face, thorax, and legs marked with white. . . .americana, Prov. 

 The face, thorax, and legs black , 2. 



2. The posterior tibia wholly black pacifica, Prov. 



The posterior tibia anniilated with white Kincaidia, sp. nov. 



Perineura americana, Prov. — $ "Black; face below the antennae, 

 inner orbital lines reaching the occiput and thence curving inwards, 

 mandibles, clypeus, palpi, gena?, scape underside, a spot on each side of 

 the median lobe of mesothorax, a spot on tegul?e, scutel, a point before 

 and another one behind, apex of basal plates, pleura and pectus in parts, 

 white. Antenna" long, slender, black, with a white spot on the scape 

 underneath. Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma brown-black. Legs 

 white, including coxfe and trochanters, the two anterior pairs with a 

 black line exteriorly on their femora, tibi;v and tarsi ; the posterior pair 

 black, with coxte, except a black spot outside, trochanters and basal third 

 of femora, white ; the spines of their tibiae, except the tips, and a ring at 

 the base of the first joint of the tarsus, also white. Abdomen elongated, 

 black, shining, venter more or less whitish on the sides. Valves of the 

 terebra black, shortly exserted." 



Length, .46 inch. 



Habitat, Cap Rouge, P. Q., Canada. 



Perifieura pacifica, Prov. — 5 Black with the abdomen red. The 

 head, thorax, feet, black without spots. Wings moderately smoky, the 

 lanceolate cell contracted at middle, the costa and stigma black. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, robust, red, with the first segment black, and a 

 black spot, poorly defined, on the terminal segment. Length, .35 inch. 

 (Translation.) 



Habitat, Vancouver Island. 



Perineura Kincaidia, n. sp. — $ Black ; the labrum at apex slightly 

 ferruginous ; the abdomen beyond the first segment ferruginous ; the 

 lateral sheaths of the ovipositor black ; the apex of the anterior femur 

 and the front side of anterior tibia, fuscous ; the mandibles spotted with 

 white ; the posterior tibia above on apical third with a white band ; the 



