PAPILIONID^. — PIERIN^. — DELIAS. 30 



Posterior wings Itlack, with a large snljovixl white patch extending over the 

 upper part of the wings from tlie apex and tlie outer margin, extending over the 

 outer two-thirds of the ceh, and a httle below it to the lowest median nervule, 

 the interspace between the two lowest median nervules being partially 

 invaded by the black area. This latter is crossed from the second median 

 nervule to the submedian nervure by a rather broad crimson bar divided into 

 three by the black veins ; below the median nervure, towards the base, is an 

 oval crimson spot, and below the costal nervure is a broad crimson Viand 

 towards the base, and a shorter crimson band beyond it, on the costal margin, 

 towards the apex. 



Hab. Aroa Eiver, British New Guinea. 



In the Collections of the Hon. Walter Rothschild (Type) and H. Grose-Smith. 



XXVII.— DELIAS ITAMPUTI. 3 . Figs. 7, 8. 



Delias Itamputi, Ribbe, " Insecten Borse," XVII., [). 330. 



Exp. If inches. 



Male. Upperside closely resembles I). Kunuiwri, but on the anterior wings 

 the apical black area is more extended and reaches to the inner margin at 

 the outer angle. On the posterior wings the outer margin is more liroadly 

 black. 



Underside. Anterior wings as on the upperside, with a subapical row of 

 spots as in I). Kiinnneri, but rather further from the apex and more macular, 

 the lower spots becoming obsolete. 



Posterior wings black with a large white spot in the middle of the costal 

 margin extending slightly into the cell and a little below the second subcostal 

 nervule at its base, a submarginal row of white bars on the disc between the 

 veins, and a broad yellow band on the shoulder at the base. 



Hab. Aroa Eiver, British New Guinea. 



In the Collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



XXVIII.— DELIAS CUNINGPUTI. & . Figs. 9, 10. 



J^ieris Cunimjputi, Ribbe, "Insecten Burse," XVII., p. 308. 



Exp. 2| inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings with the basal twc-thirds grevish- 



