200 BuUcliìidc laSuclétc lioijalc EiiluitioloQiquc iVEgypic 



Hind femom broad and sliüil, sonieAvhal sud- 

 denly narrowed before the apex as it is usual in the 

 frroup. General coloration reddish ocliraceous. An- 

 tennae with pale and dark-^Tcy rings. Elytra ^^ilh 

 the basal part ocliraceous deepening- gradually into 

 chocolate-brown apical margin of the fascia, which is 

 oblique and irregularly, but ìuìt deeply, dentate. Sub- 

 median fascia indistinct, emitting only a small spot 

 before the radial ^eins. The apical third with inde- 

 finite and very pale ocliraceous spots. The membrane 

 hyaline; veins and veinlets very pale ochracous. 

 except on the fasciae. Wings faintly l>lnish, with 

 traces of an interrupted broadly rounded brownish 

 fascia. Hind femora outwardly of pure ocliraceous 

 colour, with a distinct blackish pre -apical fascia, and 

 scarcely perceptible browinish basal and median spots 

 on the upper outer area; the base of the knee and the 

 inner knee-lobe brown; the inside and the lower inner 

 sulcus are stramineous. Hind tibiae greyish-blue, of 

 a darker shade on the inside, with a pale sub-hasal 

 ring, and the base black from inside. 



Length of body 16 mm.; ]uonotum 3 mm.; ely- 

 tra 17 mm.; hind femur 8.5 mm. 



Described after a single male taken at .Tericho, 

 i/i November tq^o. 



This new Sphingonolmi belongs to the sainc 

 group of species with strongly sloping fastiginm and 

 depressed frontal ridce as do S. finotiauiìH Sanss., 

 .S. pictus Wem. and 5. r/frru-s Sauss.(*), and it is more 



(*) For discussion of the group, as well as the synonymy 

 of its jiiembers see paper by Uvaroiv in Bull. Min. Agric, 



