
ALEXANDER—CRANE-FLIES FROM NEW GUINEA 595 
hypopyzium with the posterior border of tergite convexly rounded, on either side 
of the midline below the border with a flattened lobe; on ventral margin back 
from this lobe with a coarsely toothed blackened plate and a few microseopie 
blackened peglike or conical setae. Outer dististyle broad basally, narrowed at 
apex into a slender lobe. Inner dististyle with the beak and outer portion 
heavily blackened, the former slender, Apex of gonapophysis much expanded 
into a triangular blade. Appendage of ninth sternite a subquadrate setiferous 
cushion, 
Holotype, ¢, Torricelli Mountains, altitude 200-1,000 feet, January, 1939 
(Cheesman). Allotopotype, 2. Paratopotypes, 6 4 ¢- 
Although the genus Scamboneura had been recorded from New Quinea, no 
species had been deseribed. The present fly is very different from the other 
Australasian species, especially in venation, being closest to Scamhoneura sub- 
faceta Alexander, of northern Celebes, but differing in all details of coloration. 
Subfamily Limontnar, 
Tribe Lechriini, 
Lecura Skuse, 1890, 
LECIRIA ALIIDIPES sp, nov. 
Size large (wing, female, over 10 mm.); general coloration of mesonotum 
yellow, variegated with black, most intensely so on the cephalic portion of the 
praeseutum; thoracic pleura yellow, striped longitudinally with black; femora 
dark brown, tibiae and tarsi whitened ; wings yellowed, the costal border narrowly 
dark brown; wing margin and veins narrowly bordered by paler brown; cell 
ist M. very long and narrow, with m—cu just beyond midlength; basal sections 
of veins M; 45 and Ws3..4 longer than the stem of vein M. 
? Length, about 9 mm.; wing, 10°3 mm 
Rostrum dark brown; palpi black, Antennae with the scape yellow, pedicel 
and flagellum black; flagellar segments cylindrical, the extreme incisures pale; 
verticils shorter than the segments. Head uniformnly dark coloured. 
Pronoatum blackened in front, the posterior portion abrupt light yellow. 
Mesonolum yellow, the eephalic third of the praescutum intensely and econ- 
spicnously blackened, the colour continued laterad as a narrow line oyer the 
humeri and on to the dorsopleural region; seutal lobes less intensely darkened ; 
mediotergite chiefly blackened, the sides and a capillary median line more yellowed ; 
pleurotergite more extensively yellow. Pleura yellow, conspicuously variegated 
with brownish black, including a spot below the wing root; a narrow stripe 
