340 Dr. C. P. Alexander on African Crane-flies 



or three in cell R between the large areas and similarly 

 restricted in the remaining cells of the wing. Venation : 

 this shows cell 1st AJ, and all the posterior cells of the 

 wing longer and narrower due to the long narrow shape of 

 the wing. 



Abdomen with the caudal margins of the tergites narrowly 

 blackened. 



Hub. Southern Nigeria. 



Holotype, <$ , Ikotekpene, May 19, 1910 (J. J. Simpson). 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



The species is dedicated to the collector, Dr. J. J. Simpson, 

 whose collecting in West Africa has added many interesting 

 species to the British Museum. 



Lecteria pluriguttata, sp. n. 



General coloration pale brownish or greyish buff, the head 

 and thorax with a narrow, dark broAvn, capillary line ; wings 

 pale brownish grey with abundant brownish and greyish 

 dots in all the cells. 



Male. — Length 28'5 mm. ; wing 18 mm. ; abdomen alone 

 about 22 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas with the first 

 scapal segment dark brown, greyish- pruinose ; second seg- 

 ment dark brown ; three basal flagellar segments light 

 yellow, the remainder of the flagellum dark brown with long, 

 conspicuous verticils. Head with the convex light brownish 

 grey with a conspicuous dark brown median stripe and 

 somewhat shorter lateral stripes. 



Pronotum greyish buff, the scutum with a narrow, brown, 

 median line, the scutellum with two brown spots. Meso- 

 notal proescutum with the ground-colour dark brown with 

 three broad, light greyish-buff stripes, the median stripe 

 split for about two-thirds its length' by a transversely 

 impressed capillary brown line ; pseudosutural foveas con- 

 spicuous, brown ; scutum obscure yellowish buff with the 

 median depression broad, the lobes indistinctly marked with 

 darker ; scutellum projecting, pale buffy ; postnotum similar; 

 a more or less distinct capillary brown line extending from 

 the suture to the base of the abdomen. Pleura pale testa- 

 ceous with a more or less distinct broad longitudinal stripe, 

 most distinct in the paratype. Sternum dark brown. 

 Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem and the knobs 

 conspicuously light yellow. Legs with the coxse pale grey, 

 their outer faces more or less infuscated ; trochanters brown; 



