NO. 1020. NEW BEES AND ICUNEUMON-FLIES—VIERECK. 643 



synonymous with Canidia liolmgron, it will replace the laller pn^- 

 occupied name, in place of Canididla Ashmead. 



Regarded as a Mesoleptine this would be allied to Euryproctus 

 Holmgren. 



Type. — Paracanidia elyi, new species. 



PARACANIDIA ELYI, new species. 



Feinale. — Length, 8 mm.; superficially this recalls Callidora 

 annellata Thomson, compared with which it differs chiefly in the 

 better developed head, which is somewhat intermediate between 

 transverse and cubical, the distance between the hind ocelli being 

 apparently half the distance between the lateral ocelli and the 

 occipital carina, in the clypeus, which is nearly three times as wide as 

 long down the middle, highly polished, and truncated anteriorly, the 

 truncature apparently as wide as the clypeus is long down the middle; 

 in the annulus of the flagel, which completely involves joints 10, 11, 

 12, and 13, partly involves joint 9, and almost entirely covci-s joint 14; 

 in the clypeus, which is dark brown, becoming castaneous along the 

 apical edge; in the mandibles, which arc brownish stramineous with 

 tips and base blackish; in each of the third, fourth, and fifth joints of 

 the maxillary palpi being longer than the longest joint of the maxillary 

 palpi in C. annellata Thomson, cylindrical and equal or nearly equal 

 to each other in length; in the mesopleurne showing a better suggestion 

 of sternauli at the prepectal carina; in the more completely carinated, 

 rather compressed scutel; in the interstitial nervulus, in the broken 

 nervellus, in the sessile areolet; in the rather elongate hind coxae, 

 which are obviously longer than the greatest length of the meta- 

 pleuras; in the brownish stramineous wing base and tegula?, in the 

 brownish stramineous, brownish and blackish fore and mid coxae, in 

 the blackish hind coxae, which are streaked with reddish, in the 

 mostly whitish proximal trochanters, in the stramineous to brownish 

 distal trochanters, in the blacldsh femora, hind tibiae and hind tai-si, 

 in the brownish stramineous to brownish fore and mid-tibia\ in the 

 brownish fore and mid-tarsi; in the propodeum not extending 

 apparently as far as the end of the basal third of the hind coxae, not 

 being channelled nor so coarsely sculptured, with an acute-angled 

 basal area with rather weak circumscribing carinae, the basal area 

 apparently two-thirds the length of the open areola, the areola 

 apparently two-thirds the length of the petiolarea, middle and lateral 

 longitudinal areas mostly completely separated from each other and 

 the median longitudinal areas, the apical transverse carina developed 

 on each side at the middle of the petiolarea into a rather prominent 

 lamella; in the mostly polished abdomen with petiole not bulbous at 

 apex, but gradually dilated, the spiracles a little beyond the middle, 

 hardly carinate, with a median longitudinal furrow on the apical half 



