
UNDESCRIBED SPECIES or CRANE-FLIES rrom NEW 
GUINEA tv tHe SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 
(DipTerA; TiPuLIpAE) 
By Dr, CHARLES P, ALEXANDER, Universrry or Massacnusetts, 
AMHERST, MassacHust'rrs, 
1 am much indebted to the Director and Trustees of the South Australian Museum 
for the opportunity to study a collection of Tipulidae made in the Torricelli 
Mountains in North-east New Guinea. This small but interesting series of flies 
has added several new species 10 those known from the island, the types being 
preserved in the South Australian Museum, The collection was made by the 
distinguished collector and explorer, Miss Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, whose paper, 
“The Border Mountains and Torricelli Range of Northern New Guinea,”’ 
Geographical Journal, 1941, p. 170, ff, should be consulted. 
Subfamily Trreu.inag, 
Pritogyna Westwood, 1835. 
PriLoGyNA CIHEESMAN A S/p. Nov. 
General coloration of mesonotum and pleura dark brown, the postnotum 
more yellowed; antennae (female) with seven simply branched segments, the 
longest braneh approximately one-half the length of the sesment; wings light 
brown, the costal border darker; vague yellow areas beyond areulus, over origin 
of Rs, along the cord and in the base of cell Re; vein Ry, entering Ru. some 
distanee before the fork of the latter, so vein Ry .-+3 is subequal to vein Ry ; 
veins Ry 45 and Ay 42 extensively fused, 
9 Length, about 13 mm.; wing, 12-3 mm.; antenna, about 2 mm, 
Frontal prolongation of head dark fulvous brown; nasus lacking; palpi 
blaek, Antennae (female) 13-seginented, short; proximal four or five segments 
obscure yellow, the succeeding segments and all branches black ; flagellar sezments 
two to eight, inclusive, with a single short branch, longest on segments three to 
five, on outer segments becoming progressively shorter, that of segment eight a 
mere tuberele; longest branch approximately one-half the sezment or a trifle 
more; outer three segments simple, nine and ten relatively short, subeqnal, the 
terminal one nearly twice as long, slender, Head above dark fulvous, somewhat 
darker on central portion; anterior vertex between eyes high and compressed. 
