Arsenic alloying is observed for epitaxial layers nominally intended to be In 0 75 Ga 0 25N. Voids form beneath their interfaces with GaAs substrates, acting as sources of Ga + As out-diffusion into the growing epilayers. As a result, heteroepitaxial single-phase quaternary In^Gai-xAs-^Ni--,, films are formed with x ~ 0.55 and 0.05 < y < 0.10. While an undoped epilayer retains the wurtzite structure, a Mn-doped sample showed randomly spaced dopant segregations, which, together with a slightly higher As concentration, led to a transformation from the hexagonal to the twinned cubic phase.