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TAENIOSEA; MACRONOCTUA; MONOPTYA; SIDEMIA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
albertina. 
unicincta. 
tenera. 
alticola. 
maillardi. 
discivaria. 
perbellis. 
gentilis. 
onusta. 
leucobasis. 
defined by small brownish lunae. Hindwing blackish-brown. New Foundland and Canada to New York. — 
albertirsa Hmps. (33 1). from Canada, has a more bluish-white ground-colour, and the ring-macula is in typical 
specimens somewhat more oblique, the coniform macula being much thicker and blacker. 
E. unicincta Sm. (33 1) is larger and stronger than the preceding and of a darker brownish-grey colour; 
the anterior transverse line is entirely absent, the maculae are larger, and the undulate line is proximally bordered 
by more distinct small dark sagittae. Hindwing, however, lighter. Oregon, California. 
E. tenera Sm. (33 1) is more intensely tinted rust-brown than the preceding, the transverse lines are 
more or less double, and the coniform macula is much smaller and feebler; the small maculae are in feeble 
yellowish rings. Hindwing whitish, only at the margin somewhat brownish, with a central spot and a post- 
median line. From Alaska. 
E. alticola Sm. (33 k). Forewing greenish-white, thickly strewn with dark brown, as far as the 
postmedian line tinted with a bluish green, with brown, finely dentate transverse lines, the maculae surrounded 
with brown. Hindwing greyish-brown. From the mountains of Colorado (Gibson Mt.). 
E. maillardi Geyer. This species being wide-spread in the palearctic regions (cf. Vol. Ill, p. 117, pi. 41 f), 
together with its smaller greyish-brown form exulis Lef., occurs in Greenland and Labrador. 
18. Genus: Taeniosea Grt. 
Very similar to the preceding genus from which it chiefly differs in the somewhat longer, porrect last 
palpal joint, in its more slender structure, only the first abdominal ring exhibiting a tuft. But one rather variable 
species has been described so far. 
T. discivaria Wkr. (34 d). In the type the forewing is grey mixed with purple reddish, with double 
transverse lines filled up with grey, the grey maculae being somewhat strewn with red are in lighter rings, the 
reniform macula below dark-pupilled; behind the distal transverse line there are double black vein-dots; the 
indistinct light undulate line is proximally bordered with brown, behind it the marginal area is reddish-brown. 
Hindwing greyish-brown. — Whilst in the type the antemedian and post median areas are contrast ingly lighter 
yellowish, the form perbellis Grt. is more monotonously coloured without the contrasting lighter parts. -— 
gentilis Grt. (34 d) is also a more monotonous form, but more brightly tinted with red-brown, with effaced 
markings. All these forms fly at the same localities and are connected by many transitions. Distributed from 
Canada to New York. 
19. Genus: Maei’onoeiua Grt. 
This genus contains but one very large, robust species resembling the preceding species in the general 
characters, but the thorax is more abundantly clad with scales, the prothorax showing a sharp triangular tuft, 
the metathorax a parted tuft. The abdomen likewise only exhibits a tuft on the first ring. The cell of the forewing 
beneath is covered with hair. 
M. onusta Grt. (34 d) is a very large species the ochre-reddish ground of which is intensely suffused 
with black, with double dentate transverse lines and the maculae finely encircled with black, the reniform 
macula on the median inwardly produced. Hindwing greyish-brown, at the margin darker. Canada, United 
States to New Jersey, Illinois. •— The dingy whitish larva being reddish on the dorsum lives in the bulbs of 
lilies. 
20. Genus: Monoptya Hmps. 
The only species representing the genus hitherto exhibits the thorax purely clad with scales, with loose 
tufts on the prothorax and metathorax and only a dorsal tuft on the first abdominal ring. Forewing broad 
with a rounded apex. 
M. leucobasis Hmps. (34 d). Forewing black with a lead-coloured gipy reflection and single transverse 
lines, black internerval streaks behind the distal line as far as the margin, the maculae surrounded with black. 
The white hindwing is in the marginal half blackish-brown. Bahamas. 
21. Genus: Stgr. 
The genus is predominantly palearctic, with about 20 forms in Europe and North Asia; only one species 
is known from Ethiopical Africa, whilst in the Indo-Australian region it is apparently quite absent. Some 
species occur only in single specimens; for instance S. zollikoferi is quite sporadically found sometimes here 
