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fuscous band along the lateral margins; clypeus and clypellus light ochraceous with a narrow- 

 fuscous band along middle in ^. 



Head narrower than pronotum; crown short and broad, produced distally beyond anterior 

 margin of eyes, distal length a little over one-fourth entire median length, striate radially, 

 lateral margins converging basally, disk elevated above level of eyes; ocelli moderate size, 

 situated anteriorly; eyes large, somewhat globular, occupying nearly two-thirds entire dorsal 

 area of head; pronotum large, median length slightly greater than median length of crown; 

 surface finely knobbed; scutellum large, median length about equal to median length of 

 pronotum; elytra elongate, veins somewhat obscured, appendix extremely 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 expanded 

 apically. 



Male pygofer in lateral aspect with long, curved process arising from caudoventral margin, 



341 



343 



342 



Figs 339—343. Tkarra curtisi sp. n. 339, male pygofer, lateral view; 340, plate, lateral 

 view; 341, aedeagus, dorsal view; 342, aedeagus, lateral view; 343, style and connective, 

 dorsolateral view. 



