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Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) hirticulus new name 
Rhabdepyris ( Trichotepyris ) nigropilosus Evans, 1965, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool. Harvard, 133: 84. Preoccupied by Ashmead, 1895. 
Although Ashmead called his species nigripilosus (see preceding 
species), according to the International Code of Zoological Nomen- 
clature, article 58, compound words differing by only a connecting 
vowel are to be considered homonyms. A new name is therefore 
proposed for this species, which is known from several females from 
Panama and Brazil. 
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) apache Evans, 1965 
I described this large and striking species from three females from 
Arizona and a male from Sonora, Mexico. It now appears that it is 
widely distributed and locally not uncommon in western Mexico. I 
collected 1 1 99 and 1 c? from the tops of young Ambrosia plants, 
apparently containing honeydew, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, 
Jalisco, Mexico, July 17-28, 1965. I have also seen 1 c? from 8 
miles SE of Elota, Sinaloa, Mexico, collected May 19, 1962, by 
L. A. Stange [UCD] and 1 c? from Maria Madre Isl., Tres Marias, 
Nayarit, Mexico, collected May 22, 1925 (H. H. Keifer) [CAS]. 
In the original description I noted that the pronotal disc of the male 
is sharply declivous anteriorly and laterally. In all three of the males 
listed above, the disc is actually subcarinate anteriorly and along the 
anterior half of the lateral margins. Also, in some of the females 
from Guadalajara, one can detect a faint, irregular carina along the 
anterior margin of the pronotal disc. I have already suggested that 
Anisepyris and Trichotepyris are closely related by way of the mega- 
cephalus species group of the latter subgenus. It would appear that 
apache provides an almost perfect intermediate between these two 
taxa. For the present I shall, however, leave it in Rhabdepyris 
(Trichotepyris) , since on the whole it seems to fit best in the mega- 
cephalus group of that subgenus. 
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) fortunatus Evans, 1965 
This species was based on a single female from Costa Rica. I 
have before me two females which resemble the type very closely, 
one from Bucay, Ecuador, Oct. 4, 1922, and one from Blairmont, 
British Guiana, Oct. 1923 (both collected by F. X. Williams) 
[Bishop Mus., Honolulu]. Both are slightly larger than the type 
(LFW 2. 6-2. 9 mm) and have the ocellar triangle slightly more re- 
