Note 160 — Part II. ON THE FINAL CAUSES OF TRANSFORMATION. (continued 3)
Raphael Meldola translation
[Mr. A. G. Butler has recently advanced the view that this family is not allied to the Sphingidæ, but is related on the one side to the Pyrales, and on the other to the Gelechiidæ. See his paper “On the Natural Affinities of the Lepidopterous Family Ægeriidæ,” Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 121. R.M.]