PAPILIOXID^-PIERIN.E. 



DELIAS. II. 



v.— DELIAS EUMOLPE. i . Figs. 1. •>. 



Delias Einimlpr, H. Grose Smith, '• Aunals and Magazine of Natural 

 History." ser. G, vol. 8, p. 31'2 (1881)). 



Exp. 3f inches. 



" ^lalc. Upperside. Both wings pure white. Anterior wings with the 

 ai)ical third, costa, and base greyish black, the apical black area indented 

 inwardly, and with three minute greyish-white spots l)etween the discoidal and 

 two upper median nervules. Posterior wings with the outer margins and ends 

 of the veins narrowly Idack. 



Underside. Anterior wings greyish black, except on the inner margin, 

 which is white, and the area below and extending somewhat beyond the cell, 

 which is irrorated with white scales ; a large, oblong, obliqne, greyish-white 

 spot at the end of and extending slightly above and beyond the cell, broadest at 

 the upper end ; near the apex a curved row ot live conical spots, the four 

 upper spots yellow, the lifth yellowish wliiti", the first si)ot lielow the snbrutal 

 nervule, the second minute, the third the largest, the fourth about the same 

 size as the first, the fifth the smallest, followed near the margin l)y two short 

 white lines between the two lowest median nervules, and two similar lines 

 on the margin close together above the submodian nervure. Posterior wings 

 bright yellow, with a broad marginal black l)and and black veins ; in the l)aud 

 is a submarginal row of six red triangular spots between the veins, the ut)per- 

 most situate l)elow the first subcutal nervule ; a basal, broad, elon2;ated red 

 l)atch below the costal nervure; the costa at tlie base irrorated witli yellow." 

 (H. CJrose Sniitli, lar. rlt.) 



Hab. Kma Balu Mountain, North Borneo (Whitehead). 



In the Collections of Messrs. John Whit<?liead. H. Grose Smith, and L)r. Staiidiuger. 

 Allied to D. Descombesi, Boisduval. and D. Bfli-^aina, Cramer. 



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