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at apex of dorsal margin, curved gradually downward and posteriorly 

 through 180°. Plates fused basally, not extending as far posteriorly 

 as pygofer apex, triangular, with numerous dispersed microsetae. 

 Style extending farther posteriorly than apex of connective, with distinct 

 preapical lobe, smoothly rounded or subangulate at apex. Connective 

 as in Amblydisca. Aedeagus symmetrical, with base expanded, shaft 

 abruptly narrowed, curved gradually posteriorly and dorsally, with or 

 without processes. Paraphyses absent. 



Female abdominal sternum VII deeply and broadly emarginate 

 medially. 



Specimens belonging to this genus are at hand from Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Proconopera is not well represented in 

 collections. It is very closely related to Amblydisca, from which it can 

 be separated by its greater length, the fovea of the crown which is not 

 narrowed apically as in Amblydisca, the sulcate antennal ledges, the 

 pubescence on the basal portion of the pronotum, and the incomplete 

 dorsopleural pronotal carinae. 



The lectotype of Amblydisca maculata Schmidt is a very teneral male 

 which was compared with P. cumingi (Schmidt) in external characters 

 only. 



SPECIES OF PROCONOPERA 



cumingi (Schmidt), 1928a:49 {Amblydisca). Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. New 



combination. 

 maculata Schmidt, 1928a:50 {Amblydisca). New synonymy. 

 bullula (Jacobi), 1905c: 1 66 [Amblydisca). Peru, Bolivia, Colombia. New 



combination^ 



KEY TO SPECIES OF PROCONOPERA 



Pygofer process branched at apex ; aedeagal shaft with dorsal teeth near 



midlength P. cumingi (Schmidt) (fig. 109) 



Pygofer process not branched at apex; aedeagal shaft without processes. 



P. pullula (Jacobi) (fig. 108) 



22. Genus CICCIANA Metcalf 



Figures 110, 111 



Cicciana Metcalf, 1952a:228, new name for Ciccus StM, 1869a:60 (not Latreille, 

 1829a:221). Type-species: Ciccus latreillei Distant, new name for Ciccus 

 adspersus of authors, not Fabricius, by original designation, (see note, p. 117) 



Length 15-18 mm. 



Head strongly produced and not carinate at apex, median length 

 greater dian interocular width, ocelli located on a line between anterior 

 angles of eyes, each slighdy closer to median line than to adjacent 



