
596 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
extending from the ceryical region backward across the ventral anepisternum 
and dorsal sternopleurite; a broader stripe on ventral sternopleurite. ILalteres 
yellow, knob slightly darkened, the tip obsenre yellow. Legs with the coxae and 
trochanters obscure yellow; femora uniformly dark brown; tibiae abruptly 
whitened, a little more obscured beyond the base; basal three tarsal sezments 
similarly whitened, the terminal two segments abruptly blackened. Wings with 
the ground colour yellow, the costal border narrowly dark brown, involving 
cells C and Se, with the elongate stigma, the latter restricted to eell C; wing 
margin and most of the veins narrowly bordered by paler brown, scarcely affecting 
the general pattern; prearcular field yellow; veins dark brown. YVenation: rm 
nearly its own length before the fork of Rs; cell 7st Me of unusual length, subequal 
to vein Ms, beyond it; basal sections of veins My,2 and Mz. 4 almost equal in 
length of the latter slightly shorter, both longer than the stem of vein I; m—cu 
about opposite »m, placed just beyond midlength of cell 1st MW»; basal seetion of 
My 4-4 a little longer than the second section; m lounger than the basal section of 
vein M3; vein 2nd A straight, the cell relatively narrow, anterior arculus lacking ; 
posterior arculus joining M at aright angle. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the lateral portions yellow; sternites yellow, 
variegated laterally and posteriorly with dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves 
horn-yellow, darker basally ; cerei slender, very gently npeurved. 
Holotype, ?, Torricelli Mountains, altitude 200-1,000 feet, January, 1939 
(Cheesman). 
Lechria albidipes is readily told from all other described species by the large 
size, pattern of the body, legs and wings, and especially by the venation, as the 
unusually long eell 1st My. Among such species it is possibly nearest L. leucopeza 
de Meijere, of Jaya, but the resemblance is not close. This is the first record of 
either the genus or tribe in New Guinea, 
Tribe Limoniini 
Limonta Meigen, 1803. 
Limonta (LIBNOTES) ELISSA sp. nov. 
Allied to eboracensis; mesonotal praescntum chiefly covered by three con- 
fluent dark brown stripes, the posterior selerites of notum dark, more or less 
pruinose, especially the postnotum; head grey; legs brown; wings pale brownish 
yellow, conspicuously crossbanded with pale brown, including a broad complete 
band at cord; cell 7st My small, about as long as Rs; abdomen reddish brown; male 
hypopygium with the rostral spines four, blunt at tips, 
$ Length, about 9 mm.; wing, 10°5 mm. 
