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IlYPERCOMPA SYBARIS. 
July, and the moth was produced on the 31st. The 
cocoon is almost globose. The name Pithecium 
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. 
Phalaena (Bombyx) Sybaris, Cramer, pi. 71, fig. E. ; Palisot da 
Beauvois, Ins. d'Afr.et Amer. Lepid., pl.24, fig. 7. — Bombyx 
eredula, Fabr. Ent. Syst., vol. iii. part i. p. 47 5. 
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 antenna? 
shortly bipectinated ; that here represented is a 
female, with slender setaceous antennae, each joint 
emitting a very short fine seta beneath. 
The confines of the families Arctiidae, Lithosiidae, 
and Tineidae are so close, that it is impossible in 
* There is a slight difference in the branch of the post- 
costal 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. 
