CICADELLINAE : PART I. PROCONIINI 



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I9la 



192a 



I92i 



Figures 191, 192. — 191, Propetes schmidti Melichai-, lectotype. 192, P. com' 

 pressa Walker, from lectotype of P. trimacidata Schmidt. 



microsetae on disc, with a short process near base of ventral margin. 

 Style short, extending about as far posteriorly as connective, with weak 

 preapical lobe. Connective triangular, the arms widely divergent, 

 carinate medially. Aedeagus symmetrical with pair of once-forked 

 processes arising from base and a short process on each side of shaft 

 near its mid length. Paraphyses absent. 



Female abdominal sternum VII with posterior margin transverse, 

 occasionally with slight projections but usually almost rectilinear. 



Specimens of Propetes have been examined from Para and Mato 

 Grosso, Brazil, and from British Guiana. A female specimen from 

 British Guiana, in the British Museum, appears to be a new species, 

 but it is not described here. Only the females of P. compressa Walker 

 and its junior synonym P. trimaculata Schmidt have been studied, and 

 only the male of P. schmidti Melichar. The above description of the 

 male genitalia is based on a dissection of the last. This genus is very 

 poorly represented in collections; I have seen a total of seven specimens. 



Propetes is very closely related to Homalodisca and may eventually 



