
ALEXANDER—CRANE-FLIES FROM NEW GUINEA 597 
Rostrum reddish brown ; palpi black, Artennae wilh seape and pedicel black, 
the former sparsely pruinose; flagellum broken, Head grey, the posterior vertex 
a trifle infusealed; anterior vertex reduced to a narrow line. 
Pronotum brown. Mesonotal praeseutum chielly covered by three confluent 
dark brown stripes, the humeral and lateral portions greyish pruinose; posterior 
sclerites of notum dark brown, more or less pruinose, especially the mediotereite ; 
pleurotergite heavily pruinose. Proplewra, basal half of fore coxac, and most 
of mesepisternum dark browu, the mesepimeron and metapleuva in part pale. 
Halteres with stem brownish yellow, knobs broken. Legs with the coxae reddish 
brown, sparsely pruinose, the fore pair darker; irechanters obseure yellow; 
remainder of legs brown, the femoral bases vest rietedly obseure yellow, 
Wings with the ground pale brownish yellow, ¢onspicuously banded with pale 
brown, including a broad complete band at cord, its outer margin virtually 
straight, the ner margin slightly convex ; wing-tip somewhat paler brown; basal 
cells even less evidently clouded; more distinet but smaller pale brown areas in 
cell Se before the origin of Rs, at origin of As, and over Ra and adjoining ves; 
veins yellow, darker in the patterned areas. Venation: Se, ending nearly 
opposite fork of My 42, Sco near its lip; Rs straight, oblique; free tip of Ses and 
Fz in transverse alignment ; outer radial and medial veins all yenerally parallel 
to one another and all only moderately decurved; cell 1st Ms small, about as long 
as Rs; m and basal section of Ms in virtual transverse alignment; mex beyond 
midlength of cell fst My anal veins convergent at bases. 
Abdomeu reddish brown, the hypopygium somewhat more yellowed. Male 
hypopygium with the candal margin of tergile virtually convex, with a small 
median notch. Paired setae of tuberele of ventral dististyle very long; rostral 
spines apparently four, blint at tips. 
Holotype, 3, Torricelli Mountains, altitude 200-1,000 feet, January, 1959 
(Cheesman). 
The present fly is most similar to Limonia (Libnotes) eboracensis Alexander, 
of New Britain, differing especially in the body and wing coloration, and in the 
venation. By Edwards’ key to the then knowu species of Libnotes (1928), the 
species runs, more or less, directly to L. (L,) aurantiaca (Dolesehall) and allies, 
disagreeing in all details of coloration. 
Subgenus Dapanoprera Osten Sacken, 1881, 
Ten species of these striking crane-flics had previousy been characterized, 
all but. one having been deseribed from Diuteh New Guinea, and from certain of 
the islands to the westward m Wallacea, including Mysol (Misool) and Burn 
(Boeroe). The single remaining species is the distinet Limoniw (Dapanaptera) 
