Pierine Butterflies of the Genus Delias. 165 



86. Delias bromo. 



<$. Delias bromo, Friihstorfer, Ent. Nachr. xix. p. 335 (1893). 

 9 . Delias dymas, De NiceVille, Journ. A. S. Beng. Ixiii. pi. v. fiff. 7. 

 p. 44 (1894). 



Java. $ , B. M. 



87. Delias tobahana. 



$ . Delias tobahana, Rogenhofer, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xlii. 



p. 571 (1892). 

 cf. Delias derceto, De Nice"ville, Journ. Bomb. Soc. viii. p. 51, pi. 1. 



fig. 4 (1893). 



Sumatra. 



Not in the Museum series. 



88. Delias parthenia. 



Delias parthenia, Staudinger, Iris, v. p. 449 (1892). 

 Male, Kina Balu. B. M. 



89. Delias ninus. 



Thyca ninus, Wallace, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. ser. 3. vol. iv. p. 347 



(1867). 

 Thyca parthenope, Wallace, I c. pi. vi. figs. 5, 5 a (1867). 



Penang. Two males. B. M. 



The type (from Malacca) is in the Hewitson collection. 



90. Delias pyramus. 



Thyca pyramus, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 347 (1867). 

 Pieris thisbe, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nep. pi. vii. fig. 1 (1846). 

 Var. Delias scandha, Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. Iv. 2, 

 p. 262 (1886). 



Darjiling, Nepal, Bhutan, East Pegu. Fourteen examples. 

 B. M. 



Nine of the specimens are from the Godman and Salvin 

 collection. The Hewitson collection contains five others. 



91. Delias thysbe. 



$ . Papilio thysbe, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxxxiii. C (1782). 

 Pieris acalis, Godart, Enc. M<th. ix. p. 148 (1819). 



China. 



This species appears chiefly to differ from the female of 

 D. pyramus in the grey colouring and heavy black border of 

 the secondaries. I have never seen the species, and 

 Mr. Leech's work or ct e butterflies of China does not include 

 any of the species of 'lias excepting D. belladonna and its 

 varieties. ^ 



