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dark apex of fore wing and white colour. Below it has the 

 much deeper orange of r. Jorquini, but this orange colour is 

 duller and washed over with cinnamon. 

 Hah. Salayer Island {H. Kilhn). 



3. Delias timore7isis ardesiaca^ subsp. n. 



(^ . Above differs from t. timoreyisis in the much greater 

 extent of the white portion of both wings. Below the fore 

 wing is dark brown, NOT black ; the pale basal area is much 

 larger, white, NOT yellow, with only a yellow streak in cell 

 below costa. Hind wing, basal area paler yellow, with a 

 white margin, a crimson dot in a white ring at apex of cell ; 

 dark area between basal area and crimson submarginal band 

 brownish slate-colour ; submarginal band of coalescent spots 

 much wider and duller, more cinnabar-crimson. 



?. Above black-brown, NOT black; basal pale area of 

 both wings less grey and suffused with buff. Below : fore 

 wing, the pale basal area is less yellow, more white, and 

 more extended, the dark outer area black-brown. Hind 

 wing has the wider submarginal crimson band, white outline 

 to yellow basal area, and the slaty colour of discal area, but 

 the discocellular spot is yellow. 



Hah. $ ? (//. Kilhn) (but certainly Dammer) ; ? , Dam- 

 mcr Island (received from Staudinger) ( $ type). 



4. Delias timorensis romaensis^ subsp. n. 



cJ . Very small ; differs from t. timorensis above in having 

 the elongate subapical patches reduced to small white spots 

 widely separated. Below the dark colour is browner, the 

 subapical spots smaller, and the submarginal red line above 

 vein 2 wider. 



$ . Above differs in the strongly reduced suba})ical spots 

 and in the rest of fore wing being almost entirely black, the 

 basal ^ being only powdered with grey slightly. Hind wing- 

 has pale basal area narrower. Below the subapical spots are 

 smaller and the submarginal red band wider ; a red dot at 

 end of cell. 



Hab. Roma Island, Aug. 1902 {H. Kiihn). 



5. Delias timorensis moaensis, subsp. n. 



S . Above differs from t. timorensis in the much greater 

 extension of the pale area of both wings, on fore wing going 

 far beyond cell and in hind wing reducing outer black border 



