  We use perturbative QCD and parton-hadron duality to estimate the cross
sections for the diffractive electroproduction of rhoprime(1-) and rho(3-)
resonances which occur in the 1.3-1.8 GeV mass interval. We present the cross
sections and the ratios sigma_L/sigma_T as a function of Q^2. We compare the
predictions with those for the diffractive electroproduction of rho mesons. We
show how such diffractive electroproduction measurements at HERA can probe
features of the perturbative QCD 'Pomeron'.
