( 86 ) 



147. H. chromus ((."ramer), Pup. Ex. III. t. 2S4. f. E (1782). 



The specimens before me are all of the form described by Folder midor the 

 name mila>/(in;i, with tho wliite line uv band uti the underside of the seeondavies 

 narrow, or obsolescent. 



148. H. proximata (Standinger), Iiix II. \k 137 (1889). 

 A single jiair. 



Hit. (?)H. hiirama (I'ntler), Traiin. Ext. Soc. Eoml. p. 498 (ISTn) ; 

 id., L<i>. Exot. p. KiO. t. 50. f. 10 (1873). 



It is with some donbt that I identify tho specimens before me with Dr. Hiitler's 

 spcties. The white baud on the nudorside of the secondaries is mucli narrower than 

 in the speoimeus he figures, and tlie lilack spot at the anal angle is almost entirely 

 wanting. Otherwise the sjiecimens agree very well with his description and figure. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES 



CAPTURED BY MR. A. S. MEEK, AT MILNE BAY, BRITISH NEW 

 GUINEA, IN THE MUSEUM OF THE HOX. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, 

 AT TRING. 



By H. (JROSE-SMITH, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S,, kto. 



1. Delias xelianthe sp. uov. 



i. Epperside : both wings white. Anterior wings with the costal margin 

 narrowly black, and the apex and outer margin more narrowly black than in 

 D. falUstrute, Gr.-Sm.,^bnt not dusted with grey scales as in that species : two 

 subajiical white streaks in the black area. Posterior wings, with the outer margin 

 from the anal aiigle;[to a little above the discoidal nervule black, rather more 

 narrowly so than in!/>. at/I/sfiote, and the inner edge of tlie black area mure sharply 

 defined than in that species. 



Unrlerside : anterior wings, with the costa, apex and outer margin mnch more 

 nariowly black than in /). caUistrate, with a row of spots in the black area, of which 

 tho three uppermost are pale yellow, and the others white. Posterior wings, with 

 the basal tliird pale yellow, the black band as on the uiij)erside, but mnch narrower 

 than the black band of J), callistratt'., a row of Innular spots in the bhick band, but 

 fonr only in number, and more orange in colonr. 



?. Eppi^rside : both wings differ from the same sex of D. cullixtrate in being 

 whiter and the dark areas blacker ; the ujijier })art of the black area on the anterior 

 wings towards the apex does n(jt ap]iroach s<i closely to tlie cell, and on the posteriov 

 wings the inuei' edge of the dark area is less cnrved. 



L'Tulerside : both wings with tiie dark areas mucli blacker. On the anterior winga 

 the subapical sj)ots are yellow and white as in tho inuli', instead of all yellow as in 

 /'. i:alhiitratc, and on t he posterior wings the outer half is l)lack with a snbmarginal 

 row of narrow orange bmulos extending from the apex to the anal angle, of which 

  he second and tliird from the apex are almost obsolete; the basal third is pale 



