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SYNOPSIS OF SPHONGOPHORUS. 
Anterior Process. 
Posterior Process. 
1. SPHONGOPHORUS 
Long, flat, slender, curved back¬ 
ward. 
Simple, generally long, curved to 
meet the anterior process, so as 
nearly to complete a circle. 
2. Cladonota, Stal 
Long, sinuous, dilated in middle, 
apex sometimes cleft, (sexual ?) 
With two (or three) globular knobs, 
rising from the dorsum, hind 
apex straight and free. 
3. Lobocladisca, Stfil . 
Stout, erect, recurved, clavate with 
a tubercle on the inner edge. 
Long or longer than the anterior 
process, fungoid or tubercular, 
globose. 
4. Acanthonota, N.G. 
Long, fusiform, spatulate, with an 
inner thorn. 
Long, sharp, not tuberculate, pos¬ 
terior apex truncate. 
5. Lecythifera, Fowler 
Recurved, apex tuberculate. 
Dorsum much inflated, fungoid 
and punctate. 
SPHONGOPHORUS (LEOYTHIFERA) CHAMPIONI, Fowler. 
(Plate XIII. %. 5.) 
Fowler, B.C.A. Tab. III. fig. 1, la, p. 28. 
Allied to S. ballista. Pronotal cephalic process slender and curved behind, widened 
at the apex into a subtriangular swelling or club ; the posterior end terminated in a 
short thick reflexed process, set at right angles to the pronoturn itself; between this 
and the pronotal horn a thick somewhat hammer-shaped protuberance, coarsely 
punctured, points backwards; tegmina black, but fuscous towards the apices; a 
testaceous band or strip occurs near the eye; legs fusco-testaceous. 
Size, 6 x 6 mm. 
Habitat. —Guatemala, El Reposo, 800 feet. 
Copied by permission from the B.C.A. 
SPHONGOPHORUS (LEOYTHIFERA) ROBUSTULUS, Fowler. 
(Plate XIII. fig. G, 6a.) 
Fowler, B.C.A. Tab. III. fig. 3, p. 29. 
Small, rugose, brown in colour ; metopidum lighter ; procephalic process curved 
backwards and ending in a bilobed club in the male insect, but hardly thus dilated in 
the female; dorsum furnished with a short thick stalk, which carries a large round 
