364 Messrs. J. J. Joicey, A. Noakes and G. Talbot on 



6. Delias elongatus, Kenr. $. 



(Plate LVI, fig. 2.) 



D. elongatus, Kenrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1911, p. 19, 

 pi. iii, fig. 4, S- 



?. Upperside. — Forewing witli spots pale buff. A little whitish 

 scaling in basal half of cell. Hindwing with light area cream- 

 colour, a black spot outside cell and touching it, between veins 4 

 and 6. Basal half of cell black with a few light scales. Marginal 

 border wider than in ^. 



Underside. — Forewing with triangular patch reduced. Hindwing 

 with discal purple area washed out and spot at end of cell enlarged. 



Length of forewing : 31 mm. 



3 (^ (^ and 3 $ $ of this species were obtained. 



7. Delias pratti, Kenr. $. 



D. pratti, Kenrick, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, vol. 4, 

 1909, p. 177, pi. vi, fig. 2, c?. 



The $ does not dif?er from the ^ except in having slightly 

 rounded wings. 

 Several specimens obtained, also a long series of ^ (^. 



8. Delias castaneus, Kenr. Pupa. 



D. castaneus, Kenr., Ann. and Mag., Ser. 8, vol. 4, 1909, 

 p. 181, pi. vii, fig. 3. 



The pupa case here described was found on some sort 

 of mountain grass, to which it is still attached. The 

 insect emerged at 3.30 p.m. on Feb. 17, 1914. 



Colour pale brown. Head bearing a forked protuberance, the 

 two curved ends of tlie fork and the pedicel below black. Two 

 short black tubercles at base of head. A dorsal row of black spines 

 on somites 2-7. Two short black lateral spines on the first abdo- 

 minal somite, 2 lateral black spines on the second, and 4 on the 

 third somite. 



Danaidae. 



9. Danaida weiskei thalassina, subsp. nov. 



(Plate LV, fig. 3, ^, fig. 4, ?.) 



(J. Upperside. — Forewing with costal streak obsolete, spot near 

 end of cell with its long axis directed basally, discal spot in cellule 2 



