The spheroidal geometry of a slightly elliptically deformed sphere was used as a possible approach to fullerenes. We are interested in the elliptically deformed fullerenes like big C 240 molecule. The low-lying electronic levels are described by the Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions. We show how a small deformation of spherical geometry evokes a shift of the electronic spectra compared to the sphere. The effect of a weak uniform magnetic field on the electronic structure of slightly deformed

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... llerene molecules was also studied. We found that behavior of the electronic spectra if the magnetic field is pointed in the x direction differs markedly from the case of the magnetic field pointed in the z direction, where z is chosen to be the symmetry axis of the fullerene. We briefly report also the C60-C240 fullerene onion.