[From the ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OP NATURAL, HISTORY/O/* 

 January 188-3.] 



Note respecting Butterflies confounded under the n a me of Delias 

 belladonna ofFabricius. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER. 



FOR some years past it has been maintained by most lepi- 

 dopterists that Papilio belladonna of Fabricius, figured by 

 Donovan in the ' Naturalist's Repository,' is the female of 

 Delias Horsfiddii of Gray's ' Insects of Nepal ; ' on the other 

 hand, I have always insisted that, however bad Donovan's 

 figure might be, it represented a brown and not a black 

 species, a male and not a female, and certainly a species in 

 which the whole abdominal border of the secondaries was 

 yellowish white, not partly white and partly yellow. 



Amongst the Lepidoptera of the late Mr. Charles Home, 

 collected in the North-west Provinces of India, I found a single 

 specimen of a Delias which, after comparison with Donovan's 

 figure, I am satisfied represents the true D. belladonna it is 

 a brown, not a black insect, it is a male, not a female, and 

 the abdominal border of the secondaries is wholly creamy 





