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in D. in. meeki, and extends well beyond the apes of the cell ; it is orange anteriorly 

 as in D. m. meeki, but this colour reaches down to R^ instead of R'. 



The costal patch of the hindwing, beneath, is triangular, touching but not 

 entering the cell. 



A series of c? c? and one ? from Mt. Goliath. 



A. S. Meek obtained only eleven specimens of D. m. meeJd on the south side of 

 the Owen Stanley range during two expeditions, and did not meet with it at all at 

 the north side of that range, while the number of specimens of D. niepelti collected 

 on both sides of the range was considerable. On Mount Goliath, in the Dutch territory, 

 only D. meeki was obtaiued, no niepelti. The fact that these incline towards niepelti, 

 as pointed out in the description, is very significant, as it affords some evidence that 

 Z). niepelti was originally the subspecies of British New Guinea and T). meeki the 

 one of the Snow Mountains in the adjacent part of Dutch New Guinea, and that 

 meeki has subsequently spread into the territory inhabited by niepelti. 



19. Delias microsticha flavopicta nom. nov. 



Delias roihscMUi Kenrick (nee Holland, 1900) Ann. Mag. N. H. (8) 4. p. 180. tab. 7. fig. 2. cJ, 

 C. ¥ (1909) (Arfak Mts.). 



As Dr. Holland named a species of this genus rothschildi in 1900, the Arfak form 

 of microsticlm (not microsticta as spelt by Sir George Kenrick) requires a new name. 

 This subspecies constantly differs from D. m. microsticha in the basal costal spot on 

 the underside of the hindwing being yellow, not red. The ? of D. m. microsticha 

 Sir G. Kenrick believed to be undescribed ; but we have mentioned the three forms 

 of it in J^iov. Zool. xii. p. 462. no. 12 (1905). 



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