864 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 
lows: 1. Sphingida. 2. Uraniide. 3. Anthroceride. 4. Aigeriide. 
5. Hepialide. 6. Bombycide. 7. Arctiidee (including the Noto- 
dontide). 8. Lithosiide. 9. Noctuide. 10.Geometride. 11. Py- 
ralide. 12. Tortricide. 13. Yponomeutide. 14. Tineida. And 15. 
Alucitide. 
I leave it as a matter undecided whether the Uraniidz be nearer 
related to the butterflies than they are to the Anthroceridz. Should 
the former opinion be maintained (as in the arrangement of Latreille), 
the family ought to precede all the rest. I cannot, however, with 
Latreille, introduce them amongst the true butterflies. 

The first family Spuincip# * comprises the most robust and powerful 
insects in the order, generally distinguished by their strength of flight 
(whence their English name hawk moths) and large size. The spiral 
tongue is often extremely long, exceeding the whole body in length 
in some species; (fig. 102. 14. Macroglossa stellatarum, with the spiral 
tongue extended ; 102.1. head of Deilephila Celerio) ; the antennz 
are prismatic, and terminated by a little feather, or thread (fig. 102. 5. 
apex of antenna of Acherontia Atropos; 102.6. transverse section 
of antennze of Sphinx Ligustri after Newport); the labial palpi are 
broad and compressed, and closely covered with scales, the terminal 

* Bisiiocr. RErerR. TO THE SPHINGID&. 
Scheven. Anmerk. zur Gesch. der fleckigen Schwarmer (in Fuessly’s N, Mag. vol. i. 
1782.). 
Bergstraesser. Sphingum Europ. Larve, &ce. Hanau, 1782. 4to. 
Fuessly. Von der Sphinx Gnothere, in Mag. Entomol. 2 bd. e 
Feisthamel. Descript. dune Nouv. Espéce de Sphinx (Sph. Amelia), in Bull. Sci. 
Nat. 1827. 
Passerini. Osservazioni sopra la Sphinx Athropos. 8vo. Pisa, 1828. 
Rossi. Lettera sulla Farfalla a testa di morte, in Opuse. Scelti, tom. v. 
2? Notes on Deilephila Euphorbie, in Ent. Mag. Oct. 1824. 
Dormoy, in Annal. Soe. Ent. France, 1836 (Sphinx Neri). 
Newport, in Phil. Trans, 1832. and 1834 (Anat. Sphina Ligustri). 
Boisduval, in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris. 
Dalman, in Trans. Swed. Acad. 1816. 
Poey. Centurie Lépid. Cuba (pl. 5. Amphonyx Duponchel), and the general Works 
of Fabricius, Drury, Cramer, Godart, Palisot Beauvois, Boisduval, Donovan, 
Abbot and Smith, Curtis, Stephens, &c. 
M. Lefebvre de Cerisy, several years ago, prepared a monograph of the Sphingide, 
with figures (for which he obtained very considerable materials from the collection of 
Mr. Haworth) ; but this monograph has never yet been published. 

