PAPILIONID^.-PIERIN.E. 



DELIAS. X. 



XXXIIL— DELIAS XELIANTHE. S. Figs. 1, 2. ?. Fig. 3. 



Delias XeliantJic, H. Grose-Smith, " Novitates Zoologies," Vol. YIL, p. 8(3 

 (March, 1900). 



Exp. 2 inches. 



^Jah'. Upperside. Both wings white. Anterior wings with the costal 

 margin narrowly hlack, and the apex and outer margin more narrowly l)lack 

 than in D. Callistrate, Gr.-Sm., but not dusted with grey scales as in that 

 species ; two subapical white streaks in the black area. Posterior wings with 

 the outer margin from the anal angle to a little above the discoidal nervule 

 black, rather more narrowly so than in I). CaJlistnitc, and the inner edge of the 

 black area more sharply defined than in that species. 



Underside. Anterior wings with the costa, apex, and outer margin much 

 more narrowly black than in I). CaUistmte, with a row of spots in the black 

 area, of which the three uppermost are pale yellow, and the others white. 

 Posterior wings with the basal third pale yellow ; the l)lack l)and as on the 

 upperside, but much narrower than the black band of I). Cdlllstraic ; a row^ of 

 lunular spots in the black baud, but four only in number, and more orange in 

 colour. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings differ from the same sex of D. Callistnite 

 in being whiter and the dark areas blacker ; the upper part of the black area on 

 the anterior wings towards the apex does not approach so closely to the cell, 

 and on the posterior wings the inner edge of the dark area is less curved. 



Underside. Both wings with the dark areas much blacker. On the 

 anterior wings the subapical spots are yellow and white as in the male, instead 

 of all yellow as in D. Callistrate, and on the posterior wings the outer half is 

 Ijlack with a submarginal row of narrow orange limules extending from the 

 apex to the anal angle, of which the second and third from the apex are almost 

 obsolete ; the basal third is pale yellow. In D. Callistrate only the outer fourth 



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