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M. W. NIELSON 



Length: $ 5*00 mm, $ 5-70 mm. 



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

 elytra deep fuscous to testaceous; eyes deep griseous to rufofuscous; clypeus and clypellus 

 deep fuscous to testaceous. 



Head narrower than pronotum; crown long and narrow, produced distally beyond anterior 

 margin of eyes, distal length about one-third entire median length, striate radially, slightly 

 carinate medially, lateral margins slightly carinate and converging slightly basally, disk elevated 

 above eyes; ocelli small, situated anteriorly; eyes large, somewhat elongate, occupying about 

 two-thirds 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 somewhat obscured, appendix extremely well developed, 

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

 lateral margin somewhat constricted near antennal sockets, without median longitudinal 

 carina, surface finely granulose, narrowly rugulose along anterior margin; clypellus with lateral 

 margins broadly and narrowly concave, expanded distally. 



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374 



Figs 374-376. Tharra hades Linnavuori. 

 lateral view; 376, plate, lateral view. 



376 



374, male pygofer, lateral view; 375, style, 



