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Although the new species is related to D. anatoli- 

 ens it differs from it in a number of important cha- 

 racters, the most conspicuous feature being its re- 

 latively large head , quadrate foveolae, short fastigium, 

 tri-carinate occiput, postmedian position ol the typi- 

 cal pronotal sulcus, the shape of the prenotai lateral 

 lobes and abbreviated elytra. There is no other known 

 species of the genus vshich may be confused with 

 D. cephaloles. 



The specimens were taken almost on the shore at 

 the south end of the Huleh lake, on a flat plain which 

 is flooded occasionally and only clothed with grass 

 and herbage an inch or two high. 



59. Dociostaurus crassiusculus (Pant.). 



Fifteen miles S. of Nablus, i June; Jerusalem, 

 8 May; Kseife and Tel Arad, E. of Beersheba, 12-21 

 May; Wadi Kelt, 18 April. 



x\bounds in stony places in Wadi Kelt together 

 with Sphingonotus octofasciatus. It does not occur on 

 the hard level Jordan plain where the small form of 

 D. genei (see above) is found. 



Recorded from Palestine by Krauss under the 

 name Stauronotus havensteini Bol. which is a syno- 

 nym of crassiusculus Pant, (see Uvarov, Bull. Entom. 

 Research., XI, 1921, p. /io5). 



60.' Ramburiella truchmana (F. - W.). 



Jerusalem, 27 May; Nazareth, 3o June; Zorah, 22 

 May; Dhahariyeh, S. Palestine, 11 May; Nahr Rubin, 

 1 4 November. 



