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both species were identical in male genital characteristics. Jassoidula straminea 

 is the valid name of the species by priority of pagination. 



Biology. Unknown. Collection records indicate that the species is prevalent 

 from March to August. 



Remarks. From transversa, to which it is similar in general habitus, straminea 

 may be separated by the presence of the aperturized apical pygofer process and 

 the curved plate which is expanded medially. 



Tharra vesculata sp. n. 



(Text-figs 319-3^3) 



Length: £ 4 -70-5- 10 mm y 00-5 -90 mm. 



General colour deep fuscous to testaceous. Crown light ochre; pronotum, scutellum and 

 elytra fuscous to deep testaceous ; clypeus and clypellus fuscous to deep testaceous. 



Head slightly wider than pronotum; crown long and narrow, produced distally beyond 

 anterior margin of eyes, distal length less than one-third entire median length, striate radially, 

 lateral margins converging basally, slightly depressed medially, disk elevated above level of 

 eyes; ocelli small, situated anteriorly; eyes large, occupying about two-thirds of entire dorsal 

 area of head; pronotum medium size, median length about equal to median length of crown; 

 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, without median longitudinal carina, constricted 

 medially near antennal sockets, surface finely granulose along posterior two-thirds, rugulose 

 along anterior one-third; clypellus with lateral margins nearly parallel. 



Male pygofer in lateral aspect with short, curved, broad process arising from caudoventral 

 margin, process with lateral margins about equidistant along basal three-fourths, expanded 

 subapically, aperturized along inner lateral margin at apical one-third, and striate; acdeagus 

 in lateral aspect with dorsal appendage broad at basal one-quarter, narrowly attenuated and 

 tube-like at apical three-fourths, curved posteriodorsally ; dorsal appendage without spines or 

 flanges; ventral appendage long, narrow, tube-like, reaching apex of dorsal appendage, not 

 closely appressed to dorsal appendage; gonopore apical; connective Y-shaped; style clawed 

 apically; plate with distal segment very broad, subquadrate. 



Female seventh sternum with posterior margin truncate, notched at middle. 



Specimens examined. 



Holotype £, New Caledonia: Vallce d'Amoa, i.ii.1963 (C. 37. T. Yoshimoto) 

 (BPBM,' Honolulu). 



Paratypes. New Caledonia: allotype $, Mt stream up Boulari R., light trap, 

 3.xi.i958 (C. R. Joyce) (BPBM, Honolulu); Mt Panier, 270-500 m, 1 <$, 9.X.1967 

 (J. & M. Sedlacek); Mt Koghi, 450-600 m, 4-6.X.1967 (/. 6- M. Sedlacek) (BPBM, 

 Honolulu); Mt Koghi, 500 m, 1 $, 29. xi. 1963 (R. Straatman); Plum, 20-60 m, 1 $, 

 23-25. iii. 1968 (T. C. Mad), in author's collection. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Remarks. This species is similar in male genital characteristics to danae and 

 can be separated from that species by the distinct, clawed apex of the style and 

 separation of the ventral appendage from the dorsal appendage of the male aedeagus. 



