1961] 
Evans — Genus Epipo?npilus 
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light brown ; antennae dark brown ; tegulae dark brown ; front and 
middle legs with the coxae black, suffused with brown apically, re- 
mainder of these legs brown, middle femora with a tinge of rufous, 
front tibiae yellowish-brown ; hind legs wholly black except tibia 
with a sub-basal whitish spot which nearly encircles them ; fore wing 
weakly tinged with brownish, especially along the basal vein and on 
the apical third, setulae dark, veins and stigma brown. 
Maxillary palpi with segments 3-6 in a ratio of about 15:19:15:13. 
Mandibles with a single large tooth well back from apex. Clypeus 
arcuately emarginate apically, exposing the small labrum. Eyes 
strongly convergent below, lower interocular line about .75 X upper 
interocular line; middle interocular line. .59 X width of head; head 
about 1. 1 5 X as wide as high; ocelli in a broad triangle, postocellar 
line 1.3 X ocello-ocular line. Front with distinct punctures which 
are separated by about their own diameters. Eyes with minute hairs 
except near the tops, where they are somewhat longer. First four 
antennal segments in a ratio of about 15:5:8:9, segment three about 
1.6 X as long as thick; flagellum short, very weakly crenulate in 
profile, with coarse, dark pubescence which is especially long and 
suberect on the upper and outer sides of the basal segments. 
Pronotum of moderate length, its posterior margin subangulate. 
Mesonotum wholly and uniformly covered with small punctures. 
Postnotum nearly as long as metanotum, polished, with a median 
impression and some weak basal striations. Propodeum with the slope 
low and even; median line not impressed. Femora slender; middle 
tibiae with a few spines, hind tibiae with many fairly strong spines 
above; all tarsi weakly spinose; longer spur of hind tibiae nearly as 
long as basitarsus. Claws with the inner tooth of all claws strong, 
sloping so that the claws appear bifid; outer claws of front tarsus 
much more strongly curved than inner claws. Fore wing with basal 
vein arising a very short distance beyond transverse median vein, 
basal part of basal vein distinctly arched; marginal cell large, acute 
apically, radial vein distinctly angulate at its junction with the 
second transverse cubital vein. 
Abdomen fusiform, covered with short setae but without distinct 
ventral hair-brushes. Subgenital plate (fig. 3) consisting of a long, 
hairy apical process arising from a basal section which also bears some 
long hairs. Genitalia (fig. 4) with the parameres weakly setose; 
volsellae simple, weakly setose; basal hooklets large, double; para- 
penial lobes somewhat knobbed apically, very slightly exceeding the 
volsellae. 
