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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Latreille's system of classification, a division of crepuscular lepidopterous insects, corresponding nearly with the modern families Castniidæ and Agaristidæ: so called from being considered the connecting-link between the sphinxes and the diurnal Lepidoptera by means of the Hesperiidæ, a family of the latter division.
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