CICADELLINAE: PART 2. NEW WORLD CICADELLINI 53 
Ruppeliana tatia, NEW SPECIES 
FicurRE 617 
Length 8.7-10.0 mm. Head moderately produced, median length of crown 
approximately one-half interocular width and slightly less than three-tenths 
transocular width, ocelli each equidistant from median line of crown and 
adjacent anterior eye angle, clypeus slightly flattened medially. Thorax with 
lateral pronotal margins parallel or slightly convergent anteriorly, forewing 
with membrane including inner apical cell and apical portions of remaining 
apical cells, veins indistinct, bases of anteapical cells opposite apex of clavus. 
Pygofer well produced, obliquely truncate at apex, with a number of 
macrosetae in an irregular pattern on posterior half; plates extending 
posteriorly almost as far as pygofer apex; style extending posteriorly well 
beyond apex of connective, rounded apically, without preapical lobe; connec- 
tive Y-shaped; aedeagus without basal sheathlike portion, elongate, curved 
slightly and gradually ventrad, with a pair of slender tapering curved 
processes arising ventrally on atrium and extending across shaft in lateral 
view and posteriorly above apical portion of shaft almost to its apex, and a 
pair of more slender tapering acute processes arising dorsally at base of shaft, 
crossing the above pair near their bases and extending parallel to ventral 
margin of shaft almost to its apex. Female abdominal sternum VII trans- 
verse, slightly concave medially (ovipositor not dissected). Other structural 
characters as in generic description. 
Crown black with a broad ivory spot on each side at base, including ocelli 
and extending forward on antennal ledges, and a pair of small ivory spots at 

FIGURE 617.—Ruppeliana tatia, n. sp., holotype. 
