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aspect with dorsal appendage broad at basal three-fourths, attenuated at apical fourth, apex 

 enlarged and curved caudodorsally; dorsal appendage without spines or flanges; ventral 

 appendage very narrow, tube-like, long, expanded apically, reaching apex of dorsal appendage; 

 gonopore apical; connective Y-shaped; style broadly clawed apically; plate with distal segment 

 enlarged apically, subquadrate, anterior margin truncate, posterior margin broadly convex. 

 Female seventh sternum with posterior margin nearly truncate, excised medially. 



Specimens examined. 



Holotype J, New Caledonia: Vallee d'Amoa, 7.11.1963 (C. M. 

 (BPBM, Honolulu). 



Yoshimoto) 



Figs 344-348. Tharra gressitti sp. n. 344, male pygofer, lateral view; 345, plate, lateral 

 view; 346, aedeagus, lateral view; 347, style, lateral view; 348, aedeagus, dorsal view. 



