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Paratypes. Java: allotype $, same data as holotype $ (USNM, Washington); 

 2 $, same data as holotype (USNM, Washington); Tjibodas, 1 $, xii.1908 {Terry), 

 in author's collection. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Remarks. Tharra villicaris is similar in general habitus to dorsimacula but can 

 be separated from that species by the presence of the lateromedial flange and pair 

 of spines on the dorsal appendage of the aedeagus. 



Tharra straminea (Osborn) comb. n. 

 (Text-figs 314-318) 



Jassoidula straminea Osborn, 1934a : 183. Holotype 9j, Samoa: Tutuila (BPBM, Honolulu) 



[examined]. 

 Jassoidula infuscata Osborn, 1934a : 185. Holotype <£, Samoa: Tutuila (BPBM, Honolulu) 



[examined]. Syn. n. 

 Jassoidula straminea Osborn; Metcalf, 1964 : 83. 

 Jassoidula infuscata Osborn; Metcalf, 1964 : 83. 

 Jassoidula straminea Osborn; DeLong, 1969 : 464. 



Length: <$ 5-90-6-30 mm, $ 6-60-6-90 mm. 



General colour ochraceous. Crown light ochraceous; pronotum and scutellum deep 

 ochraceous; elytra ochraceous with an uneven, broad fuscous band subapically; eyes light 

 fuscous to deep fuscous; clypeus and clypellus ochraceous. 



Head narrower than pronotum; crown produced considerably beyond anterior margin of 

 eyes, distal length slightly over one-third entire median length, striate radially, slightly depressed 

 medially, lateral margins somewhat concave and slightly convergent basally, disk elevated 

 above eyes; ocelli large, situated anteriorly; eyes moderate size, somewhat elongate, occupying 

 slightly less than one-third entire dorsal area of head; pronotum short, median length less than 

 median length of crown, surface finely knobbed; scutellum large, median length greater than 

 median length of pronotum ; elytra elongate, veins prominent, appendix well developed, venation 

 as in description of genus; clypeus elongate, very broad anteriorly, narrowed posteriorly, 

 slightly excised along middle near antennal sockets, without median longitudinal carina, 

 surface finely granulose, rugulose along anterior margin ; clypellus with lateral margins broadly 

 expanded apically. 



Male pygofer in lateral aspect with long, broad, curved process arising from caudodorsal 

 margin, process with lateral margins nearly equidistant throughout except for apical one-third, 

 outer lateral margin indented subapically, becoming narrowly attenuated apically, usually 

 aperturized on outer subapical margin; aedeagus in lateral aspect with dorsal appendage 

 somewhat broad at basal half, becoming narrowly attenuated apically, slightly curved dorsad, 

 without spines or flanges; ventral appendage long, narrow, tube-like, apex slightly expanded 

 and sometimes extending slightly beyond apex of dorsal appendage; gonopore apical; connective 

 Y-shaped; style broadly hooked apically; male plate with distal segment somewhat elongate, 

 curved dorsad and rather broad medially. 



Female seventh sternum with posterior margin slightly produced medially. 



Distribution. Samoa. 



Specimens examined. 



Jassoidula straminea Osborn, holotype $, allotype J, 1 $, 2 $ paratypes, Samoa: 

 Tutuila, Pago-Pago, 760-900 ft, 30.ix.1923 (Swezey & Wilder) (BPBM, Honolulu). 



