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THE ANNALS 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[RIGHTH SERIES.] 
No. 108. DECEMBER 1916. 
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LII.—On new Neotropical Curculionide. 
By Guy A. K. Marswatt, D.Sc. 
THE types of all the new species described in this paper are 
in the British Museum. 
Subfamily Bracuyperivz. 
Diaprepes ballout, sp. n. 
Colour shining red-brown; the head and thorax with 
small scattered pale scales ; the elytra (in the ¢@) with a 
broad sublateral stripe of dense yellowish scales, lying for 
the most part between striw 5 and 6, and gradually curving 
inwards behind so as to reach the suture at the top of the 
declivity ; below the shoulder a similar broad stripe, which 
ceases before the middle; in the 2 these markings are 
somewhat reduced and less sharply defined, merging out- 
wardly into indefinite sparse grey scaling ; a narrow stripe 
of broad pale scales on the outer lobe of the mesosternum 
and along the edge of the metasternum, but in neither case 
does it extend on to the side-pieces. 
3 2. Head not transversely impressed, smooth, with 
scattered punctures ; the forehead narrow, less than half the 
greatest width of the rostrum, with a distinct central stria ; 
the eyes large, depressed, their length greater than the width 
of the rostrum at the base. ostrum elongate, longer than 
the head and twice as Jong as its own basal width; the 
upper surface smooth and convex, with rather large separated 
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