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DELIAS. Y. 



XY.— DELIAS GEEALDINA. $ . Fig. L $ . Figs. 2, 3. 



Delias Cu'rahiina, H. Grose Smith, " Novitates Zoologicfe," I., p. 585 (July, 

 1894). 



Exp. IJ inches. 



3Ial(\ Upperside white, with a shght greenish shade. Anterior wings 

 with the costa and the apical third narrowly black, the dark border gradually 

 narrowing to a point just above the hinder angle. Posterior wings wliite, with 

 only the fringes black. 



Underside. Anterior wings white ; dusted with grey at the base, and 

 broadly along the costa, the colour narrowing beyond the tirst branch of the 

 subcostal nervure, but throwing off a branch along the discocellular nervules, 

 the apical area blackish, with a slight purplish tinge, the apex crossed by an 

 oblique row of four pale spots, the uppermost pale yellow, the lower ones whiter. 

 Posterior wings lemon-yellow, broadly dusky at the base, and on both sides of 

 the sultcostal and median nervurcs, but not as far as the costa ; the nervures 

 are brown, broadly bordered with whitish. The yellow portion of the wings 

 shades externally into whitish, and there is a moderately broad purplish-ln'own 

 border, dusted with whitish, and containing a row of large yellowish spots, that 

 nearest the anal angle connected by yellow dusting with the yellow iinier 

 margin of the wing. 



Female like the male. Upperside. Posterior wings with a narrow black 

 border. 



UxDERSiDE. Anterior wings with the border darker, and with four sub- 

 apical spots. The dark bar on the discocellular nervules is absent. Posterior 

 wings more yellow, with the border darker, and the yellow spots more sharply 

 defined ; the white edging to the nervures is also narrower. 



Hab. Saddlebcrg, German New Guinea (Cotton and "Webster, 1894). 



In the Collections of the Hon. W. Rothschild and of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 

 This species is not closely allied to any described species ; it somewhat approaches 

 D. NUjidius, Miskin. The female is to be regarded as the type of this species. 



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