170 Sir G. II. Konrick on tieio Species of 



fusco-liyaline, darkest on the costa, nervures black. Pubes- 

 cence pale fulvous above, greyish beneath, bhick on the sides 

 of tlie abdomen, close on the median segment, sparse else- 

 where. 



Length 17-22 mm. 



Ilab. Cairns, Q. 8 <? , 2 ? . 



Allied to C. iris, Lep., and still more closely to Scolia 

 culta, Sm., from New Guinea. In the latter species, how- 

 ever, the second recurrent nervure is entirely absent. This 

 species shows the artificial nature of the division by neuration 

 in Sctlia and its near allies, the most nearer related species 

 being placed in a different genus. 



5. Cconjysomei-is gracilis, Sauss. 

 sauss. Mem, Soc. p 



I have not seen this species. 



Ulis gracilis, Sauss. Mem, Soc. phys. et hist. nat. Geueve, xiv. p. 62 

 (1854), c^. 



XVIII. — Descriptions of some new Species of the Oenus Delias 

 from North JSeio Gxiinea, recently collected by Mr. C. E. 

 Pratt. By Sir Geokge 11. Kenkick, F.Z.S.\&c. 



[Plates VI. & VII.*] 



Delias fuliginosus^ sp. n. (PI. VI. figs. 1 & 1 a.) 



^. Head, palpi, legs, and antennze black; thorax and 

 palpi with long grey i.airs ; abdomen above black, below 

 pale, the whole powdered with yellow scales. 



Upperside of both wings black, with the exception of the 

 fold of the hind wings, which is very pale yellow ; the whole 

 powdered with sulpliur-yellow scales, through which the 

 }iervures stand out dark ; fringes of fore wings black, with a 

 few yellow scales; fringes of hind wings sulphur-yellow. 



Underside : fore wings dark grey, with a few white scales, 

 an irregular band of yellow spots triangularly placed on costa 

 beyond cell and reaching over two-thirds of the hind margin. 



Hind wings black ; a small basal yellow costal spot, lioni 

 which extends a narrow white streak about halfway along 

 the costa, where it develops into an irregular white band 



* [We are indebted to Sir George H. Ketirick for the copies of the 

 coloured plates illustrating this and the following paper. — Lds.] 



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