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DELIAS. IX. 



XXIX.— DELIAS ILTIS. g. Figs. 1, 2. ?. Fig. 3. 



Delins litis, llibbe, " Insecten Borse," XYIL, p. 340. 



Exp. 2| inches. 



Male. Upperside. White, anterior wings with the costa, a streak 

 extending over the disco-celkilar nervules, and the apical fourth bhick, two 

 or three indistinct white spots in the black area a little before the apex. 

 Posterior wings white, outer margin narrowly black, but rather wider at the 

 ends of the veins. 



Underside. Anterior wings white, with the black streak on the disco- 

 cellular nervules very wide, the costa more broadly black than on the upperside, 

 and the black apical area very irregular on its inner edge ; m the black 

 area is a row of yellow spots, the three uppermost of which are the largest, 

 those below them nearer the outer margin and diminishing in size; posterior 

 wings yellowish-white in the middle with a rosy orange tinge in the cell ; 

 around the central white area is a broad black band, subquadrate, and very 

 narrow about the middle of the costa, base black with an elongate yellow 

 band below it ; on the disc outside the black band, is a red bar intersected 

 by the black veins, outside which is a row of six conical white spots, with 

 the apices pointing outwardly and dividing the broad black outer margin, 

 the area between the sub-median ncrvurc and the abdominal margin is black, 

 densely irrorated by yellow scales ; abdomen grey above, white below, 

 antennae black above, white below, club yellow below. 



Female. Anterior wings with the disco-cellular streak very much wider 

 than in the male, and the black apical and outer-marginal area much more 

 extended. Posterior wings with a much wider outer-marginal black band 

 intersected by the white conical spots of the underside. 



Hab. Aroa River, British New Guinea. 



In the Collection of the Hon. Walter Eothschild. 



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