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In some examples of the female all the wings are black, witli a submarginal series of obscure 
fulvous spots on the primaries, preceded by a short series from the costa and some indications 
of a submarginal series on the secondaries. 
A few male specimens have the chain-like band of the female, represented in deep fulvous, on the 
secondaries. 
Var. a. The central band on upper surface of primaries is indicated by three or four spots below 
the costa ; the secondaries have the ground-colour as on primaries, but most of the central 
transverse markings arc absent. On the under surface the primaries have only one transverse 
row of black spots ; the black basal spots of secondaries form conspicuous longitudinal bars, 
and there is a series of seven large quadrate or oblong black spots before the second fulvous 
band. 
Occurs at elevations ranging from 6000 to 11,000 feet in July and August 
at M-tou, Che-tou, Pu-tsu-fong, Wa-ssu-kow, Ta-chien-lu, in Western China, 
and at How-kow in Thibet. 
Melitsea bellona, sp. nov. (Phite XXIV. figs. 3 c? , l 2 , 2, 4, 5 vars.) 
Male. Fulvous, with black markings. Primaries blackish at the base ; the first discoidal stigma 
together with the one below it form a broad fuscous-centred band from subcostal to 
submedian nervure ; the second stigma is filled up with black ; central macular band 
originates in a longitudinal black dash on costa; submarginal macular band narrow ; outer 
marginal border black, with some small spots of the ground-colour on its inner edge ; nervules 
broadly black before outer border. Secondaries blackish on the basal third and along inner 
marginal area, the former traversed by some transverse lines and other more obscure 
markings of the ground-colour : a central line of small spots and a submarginal band, the 
latter lunulated from inner margin to third median nervule, and broken up into spots from 
that point to costa ; outer margin broadly bordered with black, enclosing a series of obscure 
fulvous spots. Fringes whitish, chequered with brownish at the tips of the nervules. 
Under surface of primaries fulvous ; stigmata outlined in black ; central bands, composed of 
small black spots, do not attain the costa ; marginal line formed of a series of >-shaped 
marks, edged externally, and internally towards costa, with yellowish, is preceded by a 
yellowish cloud from costa : secondaries fulvous, with three broad yellowish straw-coloured 
black-edged bands and a discoidal spot of the same colour ; the middle band is traversed by a 
black line, and the outer is dentated. 
Female. Similar to the male but paler ; the black bands are broader and less interrupted ; the 
basal half of secondaries is black, covered with long golden-brown hairs, and limited by a 
macular yellowish band, which does not reach the abdominal margin ; submarginal band 
formed of deep fulvous spots ; marginal line greyish and wavy. 
Expanse 50-52 millim. 
Ab. a. The discal markings on upper surface are more or less obsolete, and on the under surface 
the black markings of primaries are, with the exception of three spots of the central band, 
entirely eliminated ; on the secondaries there is a large black patch on costa between the 
subbasal and central yellow bands, a black spot beyond the yellow discoidal one, and a black 
curved dash in the submediaji interspace ; the outer margin has a broad yellow border, its 
inner edge sharply defined by a black dentated line. (Plate XXIV. fig. 5, S .) 
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