PAPILIONID^.-PIERIN.E. 



DELIAS. I. 



I.— DELIAS NAKULA. i . Figs. 1, 2. ? . Figs. 3, 4. 



Exp. 2^ to 2f inches. 



Male. Upperside creamy-white, anterior wings with the costa black to the 

 level of the cell, where it expands into a broad triangular apical patch, indented 

 by the nervnres, and diminishing to a black edging at the hinder angle ; a 

 small black spot on the lower discocellular nervule, connected by a streak with 

 the black apical patch. Posterior wings edged by a black line, within which 

 they are slightly dusted with grey, and indistinctly spotted with black at the 

 extremities of the nervules ; the anal angle is slightly washed with yellow. 



Underside. Anterior wings black, apex with three transverse sulphur- 

 yellow streaks, and two smaller ones, one beyond the first large one, and the 

 other below the third ; inner margin dusted with grey. Hind wings gamboge- 

 yellow, a red streak at the base of the costa, narrowly edged with black above, 

 and for half its length below ; hind margin edged with a broad black line, 

 expanding into triangular spots on the nervules, which are surmounted and 

 connected by a series of sagittate spots with their extremities resting, or nearly 

 resting, on them. 



Female. Upperside yellow, inclining to orange, the base narrowly, and the 

 apex of anterior wings from within the cell, and all the hind margins broadly 

 black ; anterior wings with a yellow dot on the lower discocellular nervule, and 

 a short yellow streak on the upper one, and with two yellow subapical yellow 

 dots. 



Underside yellow, anterior wings with the costa (narrowly) and the apex 

 and hind margin black ; cell dusted with dusky ; hind margin divided by a 

 curved row of seven spots, the three nearest the costa expanded into streaks. 

 Posterior wings nearly as in the male, but of a darker yellow, the red streak is 

 larger, hardly edged with black, the inner margin is dusted with dusky, and 

 the submarginal sagittate spots are larger and more continuous. 



Hab. Java. 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



Allied to D. Belisavia, Cram., but smaller than most of the described forms of this group. 



VOL. I., JANUAB.T, 1889. O 



