The lanthanum spectrum was photographed in the 80-1240 Ð region on a variety of vacuum spectrographs using triggered spark sources. The analysis of nine-times ionized lanthanum (La X) has led to revision of four previously identi¢ed levels of the 5s5d con¢guration and established one new level 1 S 0 of the 5s6s con¢guration, four levels of the 5s4f con¢guration, and nine out of twelve levels of the 5p4f con¢guration. The least squares ¢tted parametric (LSF) and Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations interpret the observed spectrum adequately. Fifty eight lines are now classi¢ed in La X, out of which forty ¢ve are new lines.