'iU papilionid;e. — pierin^. — Delias. 



XXV.— DELIAS NIEPELTI. <y . Figs. 3, 4. 



7)(//(/.s- Nicpeiti, Ribbe, " Insecten Borse," XVII. , p. 330. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



Miih'. Uppekside. Both wings white, very broadly bordered liy black, 

 the junction of tlie blaclv with the wliite areas densely and broadly irrorated 

 by white scales. On the anterior wings the yellow on the underside shows 

 faintly through the wings, the costal margin is narrowly black, and a little 

 before the apex, in the black area, between the veins, is a row of four greyish- 

 white patches, of which the second from the costa is the largest and the 

 lowest is the smallest. 



Underside. Anterior wings with the basal half bright orange-yellow, 

 the costa narrowly black, the outer half of the wings bright black with a row 

 of five subapical lunular yellow spots irrorated by black scales ; the two spots 

 nearest the costa are farthest from the apex, and the two lowest spots arc 

 nearer the outer margin than the middle spot. Posterior wings bright black, 

 with the disc crossed about its middle by a narrow sinuate line which is diffused 

 greyish-white on the costa, changing into yellow between the discoidal and 

 median nervules, and again changing to greyish-white (broadly diffused out- 

 wardly) to the inner margin, the veins crossing the wings from the sinuate line 

 to the outer margin greyish-white, a suli-basal greyish-white streak below the 

 costal nervure tinged with yellow scales towards the liase. 



Hab. Aroa Eiver, British New Guinea. 



In the Collection of the Hou. Walter Eothsebild. 



XXVI.— DELIAS KUMMEEI. s . Figs. 5, 6. 



I>i-li<is Kiiiiniwri, Pdbbe, "Insecten Borse," XVII., p. 308; "Iris," 

 Vol. XIII., Heft 2, Plate VIII., p. 340. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings white, anterior wings with the costa and 

 apical third black, the apical black area gradually narrowing to the submedian 

 nervure, whence to the outer angle it becomes linear ; the outer margin of the 

 l)osterior wings is narrowly black. 



Underside. Anterior wings as on the upperside, with an oblique subapical 

 straight band of yellow spots divided by the black veins, the spots nearest the 

 costa the largest. 



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