186 HYPERCOMPA SYBARIS. 



July, and the moth was produced on the 31st. The 

 cocoon is almost globose. The name Pitkecium 

 has been suggested by the uncouth figure of the 

 larva, which the author just mentioned likewise 

 calls the Bat-caterpillar. 



HYPERCOMPA ? SYBARIS. 



PLATE XXIII. Fig. 1. 



Phaiaena (Bombyx) Sybaris, Cramer, pi. 71, fig. E. ; Palisotde 

 JBeauvois, Ins. d'Afr. et Amer. Zepid., pl.24, fig. 7. — Bombyx 

 credula, Fair. Ent. Syst., vol. iii. part i. p. 475. 



This beautiful insect is evidently closely allied to 

 Hypercompa dominula, agreeing therewith in the 

 arrangement of the wing- veins*, palpi, spiral tongue, 

 and short spurs on the hind legs. The specimen 

 figured by Cramer is a male, having the antennse 

 shortly bipectmated ; that here represented is a 

 female, with slender setaceous antennas, each joint 

 emitting a very short fine seta beneath. 



The confines of the families Arctiidse, Lithosiida?, 

 and Tineidaa are so close, that it is impossible in 



* There is a slight difference in the branch of the post- 

 coital vein, which runs to the apex of the fore wings, being 

 simple in Sybaris, whereas it is furcate in Dominula. The 

 shape of the wings is also different. 



