
ALEXANDER—CRANE-FLIES FROM NEW GUINEA 601 
segments brown, vaguely paler at their bases; anterior vertex reduced to a narrow 
strip; halteres yellow, the stem dark brown at outer end; femora yellow, the tips 
narrowly dark brown; wings with a strong fulvous yellow ground, the outer half 
a trifle more infuscated; a yery restricted brown pattern, including a complete 
border to the white stigmal spot; Rs elongate, exceeding four times the basal 
section of Fy ,.5; cells 7st My longer than any of the veins beyond it; abdomer 
fulvous yellow, the bypopygium dark brown, 
4 Length, about 12 wm.; wing, 16°5 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black, the former a trifle longer than the scape. Antennae 
with scape brownish black; pedicel dark brown; flagellar segments brown, their 
bases narrowly and vaguely paler; segments cylindrical or nearly so, longer than 
the verticils; terminal segmeut strongly narrowed on apieal third. Head dark 
grey, the occipital region restrictedly obscure yellow; eyes large, reducme the 
anterior vertex to a narrow strip, the latter a trifle elevated, the posterior vertex 
immediately behind with a narrow groove, 
Pronotum dark oratige in front, paling to yellow behind. Thorax almost 
uniformly light yellow, the four praescutal stripes and the areas on the seutal 
lobes a trifle more fulvons yellow, ouly slighty differentiated from the ground. 
Halteres relatively long, stem yellow, darkened outwardly, just before the light 
yellow knob becoming dark brown. Jegs with the ecoxae and troehanters light 
yellow; femora brownish yellow, somewhat clearer yellow at base, the tips 
narrowly dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brown to brownish black; claws 
(male) with six or seven small denticles basad of the outer spine. Wings with 
a strong fulyous yellow ground, the outer half a little more infuscaled than the 
yellow proximal portion; a very restricted datker brown pattern, melading 
the preareulay field, a snuall postareular area, anil spots al origin of As and fork 
of Sc; white stizmal spot small but conspicuous, encircled by dark brown; wing 
margin from shortly before apex back to cell 2nd A narrowly margined with 
brown, narrower and more intense near apex, more diffuse behind; no other 
darkenings on wing disk beyond the level of vein Mo, exeepting very vague clouds 
over m and the supernumerary crossvein; veins yellow, inconspicuous against the 
rround, not darkened in the spots at Hs and Sc; in the whitened stigmal area the 
veins very pale and searcely visible. Venation, As clongate, exceeding four times 
the basal section of Ryo, 3 supernumerary crossvein about its own length beyond 
m; cell Ist Ms elongate, longer than any of the veins heyond it and more than 
one-half longer than the distal section of vein M7; basal section. of M73 a little less 
than twice m; m—ew about one and one-half times its own length beyond the fork 
of M or just beyond one-third the length of the lower face of cell 7sf Ma; vein 
2nd_A slightly extended. 
