CICADELLINAE: PART 2. NEW WORLD CICADELLINI 749 
to slightly more than one-third transocular width, without a carina at transi- 
tion from crown to face, ocelli located on a line between anterior eye angles, 
each equidistant from median line of crown and adjacent anterior eye angle or 
closer to latter, crown without a transverse concavity across ocelli, without a 
median fovea, surface of crown without sculpturing or setae, lateral clypeal 
sutures extending onto crown and attaining ocelli; antennal ledges not pro- 
tuberant, in lateral view with their anterior margins oblique and slightly con- 
vex; clypeus from slightly to strongly convex, muscle impressions distinct, 
clypellus with contour of its lower portion slightly more nearly horizontal than 
remainder of profile of face. 
Thorax with pronotal width less than transocular width of head, lateral 
margins parallel or slightly convergent anteriorly, dorsopleural carinae com- 
plete, posterior margin shallowly concave, disk without sculpturing, not 
pubescent; scutellum not transversely striate behind transverse sulcus. Fore- 
wing with membrane including all of inner apical cell and at least apical por- 
tions of adjoining apical cells, veins not elevated, distinct or not in color from 
remainder of wing surface, with three anteapical cells of which bases are 
variable interspecifically with respect to apex of clavus; forewings of female in 
rest position exceeding apex of ovipositor. Hindleg with femoral setal formula 
2:1:1, length of first tarsomere slightly greater than combined length of two 
more distal tarsomeres and with two parallel rows of small setae on plantar 
surface. 
Male genitalia: Pygofer strongly produced posteriorly, posterior margin 
variable but not angular, with numerous macrosetae on apical half; pygofer 
processes absent. Plates slender and triangular, gradually tapering, extending 
posteriorly almost or entirely as far as pygofer apex, each with irregularly 
biseriate macrosetae (exception: R. glaucomaculata (Germar)). Style extending 
posteriorly beyond apex of connective, narrowly rounded apically, with or 
without preapical lobe. Aedeagus usually with a sheathlike basal portion 
which bears a pair of basidorsal long slender processes that exceed shaft apex 
and often a pair of short ventral processes at apex of sheath; shaft directed 
posterodorsally or curved posteroventrally. Paraphyses absent. 
Female abdominal sternum VII weakly produced and truncate or concave 
medially; second valvulae of ovipositor slender, each with ventral margin 
slightly concave, bearing teeth on dorsal margin throughout portion beyond 
basal curvature, the primaries very broad basally, becoming progressively 
smaller towards apex and with secondary denticles on some of them (fig. 
609), apex narrowly rounded; pygofer strongly produced, or narrowly round- 
ed apically, with numerous macrosetae on apical half. 
I am pleased to name this genus in honor of Dr. Robert F. Ruppel whose 
collecting activities in Colombia resulted in specimens useful to this study. 
Ruppeliana, new genus, is restricted to southern Brazil and northern Argen- 
tina. The genus is similar in structure of both male and female genitalia to 
Pawiloma, new genus, from which it can be readily distinguished by the 
elongate basal aedeagal processes of the male. 
Specimens of Ruppeliana are scarce in collections. I have seen less than a 
dozen specimens, other than the types illustrated here, and the new species 
