PAPILIONID.E.-PIERIX.E. 



DELIAS. YII. 



XXL— DELIAS MAGA. i. Figs. L -2. 



Delias Maija, H. Grose-Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," 

 Ser. G, Vol. XIX., p. 405, April, 1S97. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



Male. Uppeeside. Anterior wings white, with costal margin narrowly 

 and apical third very broadly black, the black area extending obliquely across 

 the disk and narrowing to below the lowest median nervule, thence becoming 

 linear to a little below the submedian nervure : two small clusters of white scales 

 a little before the apex. Posterior wings with a black outer marginal Ijand 

 nearly three times as broad as in D. J/ijsis, Fabr., and other allied species or 

 varieties. 



Underside. Anterior wings with the black area as on the upperside, in 

 which a little before the apex is a row of five spots, of which the three upper 

 spots are the largest, situate obliquely and coloured yellow ; the two lower spots 

 are white and smaller and narrower ; base tinged with yellow. Posterior wings 

 with a very broad marginal black band, sinuate on its inner edge, and extending 

 over the outer third, in which is a row of seven contiguous red spots or lunules, 

 (rather narrower than in I). Mysis and D. Lara, de Haan) which traverses the 

 black band at about one-third from the outer margin ; the basal half of the 

 wings bright yellow, the yellow area extending over the whole of the cell and 

 below it until reaching the black band. 



Hab. Sud-Est, British New Guinea ("Woodford). 



In Mr. Grose-Smith's Colloction. 



Closely allied to D. Mysis, D. Lara, and D. Crmntata, ButL, l/ut distinguished by the much 

 broader black ai-eas on both sides of the ivings. 



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