AUC'i'iiD.i:. — iivPF,uc:()MPA. 6*7 



Gknus LXVII. — Hyi'Eucoaipa, H'libner? 



Pal/n very short, ascending, pilose, triarticulate, the terminal joint exposed; the 

 basal joint tumid at the apex, as long as the second, terminal short, ovate : 

 maxillce considerably longer than the head. Antenncc simple, ciliated in both 

 sexes: //<?«c7small, clothed with short, compact, hair: thorax and ahdumen not 

 very stout, covered with close short velvety pile: wings deflexed, densely 

 squamous; the anterior elongate-trigonate : legs robust, squamose. Larva 

 with fascicles of hairs down the sides : pvpa smooth, with a spine at the 

 apex, enclosed in a loose web on the ground. 



Both sexes of Hypercompa are remarkable for liaving the antennae 

 simple and ciliated; and they may be known with facility from the 

 other Arctiidae by the elongation of their maxillae, which are much 

 longer than the head, and spirally, but irregularly twisted. 



I am not certain whether this be the type of the Hypercompte of 

 Hiibner ; but the exquisite beauty of the insect well accords with 

 the name. 



Sp. 1. Dominula. Alis anticis viridi-atris, viaculis albo-Jlavesceniihus, posticis 

 rubris nigro-maculaHs. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. — 2 unc. 2 lin.) 



Ph. No. Dominula. Linm':. — Don. iv- pi. 171. — Hy, Dominula. Stcph. Catal. 

 No. COIG. 



Antenna;, head, and thorax black, the latter tinged with green, with two ochra- 

 ceous-yellow streaks ; abdomen red above, with a black dorsal line, dark green 

 beneath ; anterior wings deep black, with a rich silken green gloss, with several 

 cream-coloured or ochraceous spots of various magnitudes, and more or less 

 confluent, three at the apex small : posterior wings cinnabar-red, spotted with 

 black on the anterior and posterior m^argins : cilia black : both surfaces of the 

 wings nearly similar. The size of the spots varies considerably. 



Caterpillar hairy, black, with three yellow longitudinal linear and white spots: 

 it feeds on the hounds-tongue, willow, ash, nettle, archangel, &c. ; changes into 

 a brown pupa, in a loose web, mixed with pieces of leaves on the ground : the 

 imago appears in June. 



This elegant species was formerly taken in considerable plenty 

 in the lanes near Charlton and Blackheath, but of late it has become 

 scarce near London : it, however, has occurred in plenty at Whit- 

 tlesea-mere, and in the New-forest. " Near York, once." — W. C. 

 Hezoitson, Esq. " Long Parish and Amesbury." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 

 " Not very uncommon in the neighbourhood of Bottisham and Cam- 

 bridge." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Teignmouth, Devon, and Oxford." — 

 Rev. W. T. Bree. "Near Barnstaple, not uncommon."" — IF. Rad- 

 don, Esq. 



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