AGARISTA PICTA. 83 
the line of demarcation. Mr. West\yood has not 
hesitated to inchide Agarista in the family of the 
Uraniidoe, and completely to disjoin the latter 
from the Rhopalocera (or Lepidoptera with club- 
shaped antennse, including all the true butterflies) 
by the interposition of tlie Sphingid^. It is im- 
possible, however, to look at one of the brightly 
coloured day-flying Uraniidae, without at once re- 
cognising a much closer affinity to the true butter- 
flies than is presented by any of the sphingideous 
species; and whatever distribution may be ulti- 
mately adopted, it seems indispensable that the 
Uraniidae should immediately succeed the Rhopalo- 
cera. 
AGARISTA PICTA. 
PLATE II. Fig. 1. 
L^afk, Zool. Miscellany, vol. i. pi. 15 ; God. Ency. Meth. voL ix. 
p. 803 ; Boisduv. Voy. de V Astrolabe, p. 172 Pap. Agrieola, 
DonovaTi's Insects of New Holland. 
According to his arrangement, Latreille justly 
regarded the genus Agarista as one of the most 
characteristic of the group which he named Hesperl- 
sphinges., as^ intermediate between the Hespereidan 
butterflies and the sphinxes properly so called. The 
antennas of the hesperi-sphinges are simple, thick- 
