10 I'AI'ILIONID.E. PIERIN.ll. — DELIAS. 



Exp. "ij-'i^ inches. 



FniKtlc. UrPERSiDE white, ilusted with blackish at base, aud with broad, 

 l)laclv borders and fringes. Anterior wings with the costa black to beyond the 

 sul)mcdian nervure ; apex beyond the cell, and hind margin black, as far as the 

 hinder angle, except that the fringe of the whole inner margin is white. Apex 

 with a curved row of from three to five white or yellowish spots. Posterior 

 wings white, with the outer tiiird black, and usually with three or four white 

 submarginal dots between the nervures. 



Underside. Anterior wings white, yellow at the base, with the costa and 

 apical third purplish-black ; the colour, how-ever, becomes linear towards the 

 base and hinder angle. Subapical spots larger and more numerous, those 

 nearest the costa yellow. Posterior wings purplish-black, lighter than on the 

 anterior wings ; l)asc and inner margin yellow ; a broad, white space along the 

 costa, ceasing in an orange-yellow line at ai)ex ; a row of seven rather large 

 submarginal dashes, the middle ones hardly separated by more than the nervures. 



Body greenish-white, antenna-, palpi, and a line on the tibi* and tarsi 

 Mack. 



Hal). Piockingham Bay and Johnstone Eiver, North Queensland. 



In the Collectiou of Mr. H. Grose Smith. Miskiu eousiders this species to he allied to 

 It. Etui id. Wallace. He describes tke male as resembling the fennile, Init with narrower borders- 



X.— DELIAS OPiAIA. $ . Figs. 5, C. ? . Fig. 7. 



Ddias (iniiii, Doherty, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," vol. GO, 

 part 2, p. 189 (18'.)1). 



Exp. 2^-3i inches. 



Male. Upperside white, blackish toA\ards the base, anterior wings with 

 the costa black ; apex and hind margin with a narrow blackish border, thickly 

 dusted with white, and not extending to the hinder angle. Posterior wings 

 with a black hind-marginal line, within which are more scattered blackish 

 scales ; inner margin slightly tinged with yellow towards the anal angle. 



Underside. Anterior wings grey, blackish towards the margins, a white 

 band over the diseocellular nervules, and the branches of the median nervure 

 bordered with white, shading into grey between ; a row of white submarginal 

 spots between the nervures. the up[termost largest, and shading into yellow. 



