EXOTIC MOTHS. 



It is still a matter of dispute whether the Ura- 

 niidae, the splendid tribe of Lepidoptera with which 

 we terminated our account of Foreign Butterflies, 

 really appertains to the true butterflies, or should 

 be included among the crepuscular kinds. The 

 structure of the antennae, organs of the highest 

 importance in the arrangement of this order, seem 

 to indicate the latter as their true position; and 

 this is further corroborated by the metamorphoses, 

 with which we have but recently become acquainted. 

 In ignorance of these, and influenced by the brilliant 

 colours of the typical species, and their general ap- 

 pearance, Latreille arranged them with butterflies 

 after Hesperia, and has been followed by most sub- 

 sequent writers. In commencing the Heterocerous 

 section, as has been done by the author just named, 

 with Agarista, a very close connexion, therefore, 

 subsisted between the two great divisions, so close, 

 indeed, that it would be no easy matter to define 



