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MACROTES NETRIX, Westwood. 



PLATE XXIX. Fig. 2. 



Phakena netrix, Cramer, pi. 151, E. 



This moth, remarkable for the great length of the 

 antennas, legs, and abdomen, belongs to the Geome- 

 tridae, agreeing with various species of that family 

 in the subfalcate and angulated form of the wings. 

 The head is small ; the palpi about as long as the 

 head, and compressed. The antennas as long as the 

 body, and strongly bipectinated to the tips in the 

 males, but simple in the females (if it be correct to 

 refer this species to Cramers figure above cited). 

 The fore wings are long, slightly falcate at the tips, 

 and angulated in the middle of the outer margin ; 

 the hind wings are somewhat lozenge-shaped, with 

 the margins scolloped, and strongly angulated in 

 the middle. The abdomen is exceedingly long, as 

 are also the anterior tarsi, which are very slender, 

 with a small tuft of scales on the outside, close 

 to the bar, where the joint is slightly curved. The 

 femora and tibias of the fore legs are short, the for- 

 mer with long slender hairs beneath, and the latter 

 with fascicles of scales. The hind legs are wanting 



