Tharra ocellata, Metcalf, 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 132-133

9. Tharra ocellata , new species (fig. 17, a-e).

Vertex one fourth longer than its basal width, distinctly foveate, with a slender median basal carina which extends for more than half the length of the vertex; the whole surface of the vertex finely but distinctly rugulose; the rugae extending diagonally from the median area. Postclypeus about two and oneahalf times as long as dorsal width; finely rugulose dorsad; most of the area, however, entirely smooth, no median carina; lateral margins diverging from dorsal margin to above the base of the antennae, then rather deeply sinuate and converging to the base of the narrow clypeus; clypeal suture very indistinct; anteclypeus somewhat expanded ventrally; juga is strongly produced dorsad; preocular region narrow. Pronotum shorter than the vertex, about three.times as broad as its median length, posterior margin broadly and shallowly sinuate. Mesonotum longer than the vertex, slightly wider than medium length.

Female genitalia with the last ventral segment longer than the penultimate; posterior margin produced, with a triangular V-shaped incision on the median line; pygofer slender; ovipositor and ovipositor sheath longer than pygofer. Male plates elongate, slender parallel-sided, somewhat curved; the apices approximate, somewhat rounded apically. Aedeagus elongate, slender, tubular; genital spines with elongate bases, widely separated, converging, broadly curved to attenuate apices.

General color ochraceous tawny. The tegmina ochraceous brown; legs and venter ochraceous buff; eyes blackish; hind wings smoky brown. In the male, the dorsal third of the face blackish fuscous.

Length: to apex of tegmina of female, 6.5 mm.; of male, 5.5 mm.

Holotype male, Ritidian Point , April 16, E. H. Bryan, Jr.; allotype female, Upi Trail , May 5, Usinger ; paratypes: female, Machanao , Aug. 6, Swezey ; female, Upi Trail , May 5, E. H. Bryan, Jr.; male, Machanao , June 30, Swezey .

In general structural characters, like carinata Baker, and in coloration somewhat like 9gygia Kirkaldy. The last ventral segment of the female of this species is distinctive.