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avec I'apex d'un jauue de beurre ; ailes iiiferioures de cettc dernic-rc kinte, ayant a la base 
une tache orangec. Lcs ncrvures sout, aus qiiatre ailes, plus ou moins fortement chargees 
d'atomes bruns. 
" Femelle. Ailes plus arrondies que chez lo male, le inforieuros logerement dentees, a nervures 
gdntTalcment plus cbargees d'atomes noirs ; apex plus largcment noir et tache internervuralo 
toujours bien marquee et touchant presque les deux premiers raracaux de la norvure 
mediane ; une autre tache semblable, situee vers le bord interne, lui fait suite comme chez 
les $ de P. napi et de melethe. Sur le bord costal des ailes inferieures, il y a egalement, 
comme chez les especes prises comme terme de comparaison, une tache noire, souvent asscz 
large, situee a I'extremite du premier rameau de la nervure sous-costale. Dessous semblable 
a eelui du male, avec les taches ct nervures plus larges. Chez quelques femelles, les taches et 
les nervures sent tellement larges et chargc'es d'atomes noirs qu'elles donnent a ces insectes 
un aspect tout particulier. 
" Plusiers males et femelles de Mou-Pin (Thibet oriental) rapportes par ^1. Tabbe A. David, qui en 
a fait don au Museum." (Poujadc, I. c.) 
Var. Veris, Staudinger. Smaller than the type, -wings almost entirely white with the exception 
of a black apical patch on primaries. The large black outer marginal spot, found in melete, 
is either absent or only faintly indicated. In the female the veins are more or less bordered 
with blackish, the apical patch is represented by a streak along the costa, and the outer 
marginal spots are fainter and smaller, but the lower of these joins the black inner marginal 
streak which in this form extends to the base of the wing. The under surface of veris differs 
still more from typical melHe, as all the veins are broadly bordered with greyish black, the 
black spots are only rudimentary, and in some examples one or both arc entirely absent ; the 
secondaries and apices of primaries are in both sexes somewhat strongly tinted with yellow, 
as is occasionally seen in some females of melete ; the orange basal spot * of hind wing is 
quite as well defined as in the tyjie. 
The above is an abridged translation of Dr. Staudinger's description of var. veris, from Amurlaud. 
Var. maudarina, var. nov. Larger than the type. The male has the apical border of primaries 
continued further along outer margin and the black spots are more distinct. The female is 
more suffused with blackish and the neuration is heavily charged with black. On the under 
surface the neuration is blackish in both sexes. Occurs in North China during the summer 
months. 
Asa rule the apical patch on primaries does not pass below the third 
median nervule in Japanese male specimens of P. melete, but in some 
examples it extends into the second median interspace, where it unites with 
the black spot. In these specimens the nervules of secondaries are broadly 
bordered with black on outer margin. The females from Japan have the costal 
area, discoidal cell, and submedian interspace much suffused with fuliginous 
grey ; the apical patch is broad and frequently absorbs the spot in second 
median interspace ; whilst the spot in submedian interspace is merged in 
the broad extremity of the inner marginal streak. In both sexes the venation 
• This important character has been omitted in the figure of var. veris. 
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