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and much less hairy species with the clypeal emargination much 
less pronounced. 
Genus Epipompilus Kohl 
I reviewed the neotropical species of this genus in 1967; sub- 
sequently, I reviewed the species occurring in the Australian 
region (1972). This is an archaic genus with a southern hemi- 
sphere distribution. Some of the Australian and New Guinea 
species have unusual structural features, such as the loss of either 
the first or third intercubital vein, leaving only 2 submarginal 
cells. I describe below the first American species with only two 
submarginals, a brilliantly colored species from Jamaica. Two 
new species from Bolivia are also described, and E. nigribasis 
is reported from the West Indies for the first time. The number 
of neotropical species now stands at 16; 33 are known from the 
Australian region. 
Epipompilus jamaicensis new species 
Holotype. — 9, JAMAICA: Hardwar Gap, 4000', 29 July, 1966, 
(Howden & Becker) [Canad. Nat. Coll., Ottawa]. 
Description of type female. — Length 5.8 mm; fore wing 5.1 
mm. Head ferruginous except occiput black, mouthparts largely 
straw-colored; thorax and propodeum ferruginous except black 
ventrally, including propleura and extreme lower parts of meso- 
and metapleura; abdomen fuscous, except tergites 2 and 5 each 
with a pair of large white spots; antennae dull ferruginous, dark- 
ened at each joint; legs varicolored, coxae black and straw-colored, 
femora dark brown, blotched with straw, tibiae and tarsi brown, 
hind tibiae annulated with straw near base. Wings mainly hya- 
line, fore wing with a brown band crossing wing at basal vein and 
a broader band at marginal cell, apex of wing with a whitish bloom; 
hind wing slightly infuscated apically. Clypeus broadly emar- 
ginate. Malar space slightly shorter than width of mandibles 
at their base. Front narrow, middle interocular line 0.53 X head 
width; upper and lower interocular lines subequal; eyes densely 
hairy; ocelli in a flat triangle, postocellar line 1.2 X ocello-ocular 
line. Third antennal segment 0.48 X upper interocular line. Post- 
notum a very narrow transverse band; slope of propodeum low 
and even, median line not impressed. Front femora not swollen. 
