
ALEXANDER—CRANE-FLIES FROM NEW GUINEA 589 
darker medially; vertical tubercle low, with two impressed longitudinal lines 
that divide the tubercle into three parts. 
Pronotum brown. Mesonotal praescutum with three dark grey stripes that 
are more or less distinetly bordered by brown, the intermediate pair barely 
divided by a narrow darker grey area; posterior interspaees buffy grey, the 
lateral borders aud anterior interspaces broadly dark brown; suture pale yellow, 
especially on the seutal side; each seutal Jobe with two dark grey areas that are 
vaguely bordered by brown, the posterior portion of scutum infuseated ; seutellum 
and mediotergite very pale yellow, the latter more pruinose ou posterior half, 
the eaudal border dark brown, with indications of # eapillary brown median yitta 
extending cephalad almost to the anterior border; pleurotergite light grey, 
Pleura light yellow or yellowish grey, Variegated by brown areas, especially large 
aud distinel on the propleara, dorsal anepisternum and yentral sternopleurite ; 
dorsoplenral membrane yellow, its borders and especially the anterior end more 
infuseated, Flalteres with stem iufuseated, its base yellowed, the knob vaguely 
brightened, Legs with the coxae yellowish grey, the fore pair more patterned 
with brown; trochanters yellow; femora brownish yellow, the tips conspicuously 
dark brown, preceded by a slightly narrower clearer yellow ring; tibiae aud 
tarsi orange; claws with a low obtuse knob shortly before midlength, Wings 
long and relatively narrow, with a strong brown tinge, restrictedly patterned 
with darker brown, especially in the prearcular field, at arelus, along posterior 
cord, in stigmal region, and at end of vein 2nd A; narrower and less conspicuous 
seams over outer end of cell 1st My and adjoining veins; veins brown, Venation: 
Rs about equal in length to second seetion of vein My»; m-ew at midlength of 
vein Ms. 4; petiole of cell My about two-thirds m. 
Abdomen with tergites dark reddish brown, with a darker brows sublateral 
stripe; lateral borders narrowly grey; posterior margins of segments yery 
narrowly darkened; narrow basal ‘ings move glabrous and shiny; basal sternites 
yellow, the intermediate ones chiefly concealed; subterminal segments extensively 
more darkened; hypopygium yariegated brown aud obseure yellow. Male 
hypopygium witl the lateral lobes short, nearly truncate, ihe broad median area 
depressed and not provided with the abundaut short setue that cover most of the 
remainder of tergite. Outer dististyle broadly flattened, trnmeated at apex, the 
entire surface with very abundant delicate setulae but with very few seattered 
pale setac. Trier dististyle long and slender, the basal third more dilated and 
provided with setae, those of the lower expanded portion longer and more 
conspicuous; at near midlength the style is constricted, thence dilated into a 
blade that narrows gradually to the slightly deeurved beak. 
Holotype, ¢, Torricelli Mountains, altitude 200-1,000 feet, January, 1989 
(Cheesman). 
