PAPILIOXID.E.-PIERIN.E. 



DELIAS. VIII. 



XXIV.— DELIAS NEYI. <j . Figs. 1, 2. 



Ih'lids Xqii, Ribbe, " Insecten Burse," XVII., p. 308 (1900); "Iris," 

 Vol. XIIL, Heft 2, Plate VIII., p. ;33<). 



Exp. 2f inches. 



3Iiih'. Upperside. Anterior wings black, with a large white patch on the 

 inner margin from near the base to a little before the outer angle, extending 

 upwards to the median nervure and slightly invading the cell. Posterior 

 wings with the basal three-fourths white and the outer fourth black, the black 

 area narrowest towards the anal angle and gradually widening to the apex, its 

 inner edge diffused and irregular. 



Underside. Anterior wings black, with a white diffused patch on the 

 middle of the inner margin extending upwards, but not reaching the median 

 nervure, the white area being more restricted than on the upperside, a diffused 

 greyish- white curved band before the apex, the veins crossing it being black. 

 Posterior wings black, with a very large circular orange patch covering the 

 middle of the disc and the outer two-thirds of the cell, a l)lack oval sjiot in 

 the interspace between the two upjier median nervules, a white streak in 

 the middle of the outer margin above the orange patch, and a sub-basal 

 white streak. 



Hab. Aroa River, British New Guinea. 



In the Collections of the Hon. Walter Eothsehild (Type) and H. Grrose-Sniith. 



This species is very close to Delias Alhertisi, Oberth., and I should not be surprised if it 

 should be proved to be the male of that species. Monsieur Ob-Tthiir believes his type to be a 

 female, and I have not heard that a female of the species here figured has yet been captured. 

 The specimen figured by Herr Honrath in the "Berliner Ent. Zeitschrift," Vol. XXX.. under the 

 name of " Discus," a svuonvm of B. Albertisi, is also a female. 



VOL. III. JUNE, 1901. 



