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capluies arc duc. It occurs among llic stones, in the. 

 same places as S. ociofascialus, but rather later, not 

 on tlic clay plain like S. mcclicriac. 



78.* Sphingonotus hierichonicus, I'varov, sp. n. (figs. 4 *fc 5). 



cT, Related to -S. piclus AVcrn. 



Antennae nearly t^^ice as long as the head and 

 pronolum together. Head strongly prominent above 

 the pronotum. Face distinctly reclinate. Frontal ridge 

 broad, depressed, obliterated below the ocellum, 

 above it with the surface slightly convex between the 

 two lateral submarginal sulci. Fastigium of vertex 

 very strongly sloping, almost vertical, scarcely pro- 

 jecting before the eyes, very indistinctly carinated 

 laterally and not at all carinated in front; the surface 

 very feebly impressed, the middle line slightly ele- 

 vated without forming a carina; temporal foveolae 

 almost obliterated, minute, elongate. Occiput strongly 

 sloping backwards. Eyes large, strongly projecting 

 sitieways and distinctly so upwards, broadly oval in 

 shape; the subocular distance equal to the horizontal 

 diameter of an eye; interocular space (on the vertex) 

 distinctly widened backwards, narrower in front than 

 the Iiansverse diameter of an eye viewed from above 



Pronolum strongly constricted in the prozona, 

 whirh is also distinctly below the level of the nu>ta- 

 Zi)na. \iiteiior margin broadly bi-sinuate. Sidunar- 

 ginal (falsei sulcus not strongly impressed. The first 

 true sulcus well developed, broadly bowled in the mid- 

 dle. The second sulcus scarcely perceptible, obliter- 

 ate in the middle, T1}0 interspaces between the sulci 



