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PAPILIONID^. 



Fam. PAPILIONID^. 



Subfam. PIERINJE. 

 Genus DELIAS. 



Delias, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmctt. p. 91 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 139 (1881) ; 



Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 289 (1885). 

 Pieris, section 1, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 44 fl847). 



" Anterior wings somewhat elongate ; costal margin moderately convex, the apex rounded, outer 

 margin obliquely rounded, inner margin nearly straight. Costal uervuro extending to about 

 two thirds of the wing ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about one fourth before end of cell, 

 second and third bifurcating near apex of second, fourth springing from second at about one 

 third beyond end of cell ; upper discocellular obliquely directed outwardly, lower discocellular 

 somewhat concave ; discoidal nervule emitted at central apex of cell ; median nervules emitted 

 wide apart, first and second a little nearer to each other than second and third. Posterior 

 wings elongately subovato ; the costal margin oblique, the posterior margin convex, abdominal 

 margins obliquely divergent towards anal angle. Costal nervure extending to about two 

 thirds of costal margin, first subcostal nervule emitted at about one third before end of cell, 

 second almost midway between bases of the first and of the discoidal nervule ; upper disco- 

 cellular oblique, lower discocellular very slightly concave ; upper median nervule emitted at 

 apex of cell, second and third median nervules almost twice as wide apart at base as first and 

 second; submcdian nervure slightly curved outwardly; internal nervure reaching about 

 centre of abdominal margin. Body somewhat robust ; head and pronotiim clothed with long 

 hairs ; palpi porrect, extending considerably beyond the head, and clothed with long hairs 

 beneath ; legs long and slender ; antennae with a well-formed and moderately-channelled 

 apical club." (Distant, I. c.) 



Delias belladonna. (Plate XXXVII. figs. 8 d , 4 ? .) 



Papilio belladonna, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. p. 180 (1793) ; Donovan, Nat. Rep. i. 



pi. XXXV. (1823). 

 Pieris horsjicblii, (iray, Zool. Misccll. i. p. 32 (1831). 

 Picris belladonna. Gray, Lei). I"^- Ncjjal, p. 7, pi. viii. fig. 2 (18IG). 

 Delias belladonna, var. Iiorsjieldii ? , Elwes, Trans. Knt. Soc. Lond. 1888, pi. x. fig. 3. 

 Di'lins helladonna, var. zclima, Mitis, Iris, 1893, p. 131. 



" P. IJ. iilis ol)longi8 integerrimis atiis : anticis hyalino punctatis, posticis llavo maculatis. 

 " Papilio Mladomia. Jon. fig. jnct. .3. tab. 37. fig. "2. 



"Statura /'. J 'anil hoe nt major. Corpus nigrum abdominis marginihiis cinorcis. Ala^atra^ cinerco 

 ])unf:tii»;r. Subtiis concolores at lineola maculaquo baseos albis. Postictc atra), fiavo macu- 

 lata; macula baseos anguliquc ani majoribus. Bubtus fere concolores." {Fabricitis, I. c.) 



