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rather close to aztecus. As mentioned in the introduction, Ashmead 
provided no real description of the species, and Bradley did not see 
the type and therefore followed Haupt, who had misidentified the 
species. Presumably Ashmead was merely in error when he gave 
“Peru” as the type locality of the species, as the type is labeled in 
Ashmead’s handwriting. 
5. Epipompilus haupti (Aide) new combination 
Aulocostethus haupti Arle, 1936, Festschr. fur Embrik Strand, 1: 514 [Type: 
9 , Serra do Realengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7 Oct. 1934]. — Bradley, 
1944, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 70: 144. — Banks, 1947, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool., 99: 445. 
Remarks. — Bradley has provided a translation of the description 
of this species. I have studied the specimen mentioned by Banks 
(Campinas, Brazil). The legs of this specimen are more extensively 
rufous than described for the type, but there is agreement in most 
other details; the eyes of this species are more weakly hairy than is 
usual in the genus. 
6. Epipojnpilus excelsus (Bradley) new combination 
Figs. 3 and 4 
Aulocostethus excelsus Bradley, 1944, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 70: 143 [Type: 
9 , Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 25 January 1939 (Mus. Comp. 
Zool.)]. — Wahis, 1957, Bull, Ann. Soc. R. Ent. Belg., 9 3: 47-49 (Remarks 
on color variation). 
Remarks. — I have seen several additional females of this species 
from the type locality, as well as a female from Rio de Janeiro, 
October 1938 (R. C. Shannon) [U. S. Nat. Mus.]. The type, as 
well as all the other specimens I have seen, has a pair of connected 
whitish spots on the fifth tergite, Bradley’s description being in error 
on this point. Wahis has discussed this matter and also pointed out 
that some specimens have whitish markings on the second and sixth 
tergites. 
A male Epipo?npilus in the Canadian National Collections, Ottawa, 
is almost certainly that of excelsus , even though it is colored very 
differently from the female. Like the type female excelms , it was 
taken at Nova Teutonia, Brazil, by Fritz Plaumann, in this case 
on 19 June 1946. The spinose hind tibiae, as well as the locality, 
suggest that this male belongs here rather than with haupti or bifas- 
ciatus. 
Description of male . - — Length 5.8 mm., fore wing 4.8 mm. Body 
wholly shining black, with a weak bluish luster; face with a pair of 
small whitish spots beside and below the antennal sockets, next to the 
eyes; apical two thirds of mandibles whitish, the teeth rufous; palpi 
