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212 MACROTES NETRIX, Westwood. PLATE XXIX. Fig. 2. Phalæna netrix, Cramer, pl. 151, E. moth, remarkable for the great length of the antennæ, legs, and abdomen, belongs to the Geometridæ, 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 antennæ 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 Cramer's 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 tibiæ of the fore legs are short, the former with long slender hairs beneath, and the latter with fascicles of scales. The hind legs are wanting