HHOPA UJCERA MALA YA NA . 



that I have felt obliged ta give it a different name, although its general appearance is such 

 that many entomologists would at once pronounce it ( a mere variety/ Male specimens were 

 only taken by myself at Malacca." 



Mr. Wallace appears to have been perfectly justified in this course. The amount of 

 differentiation is equivalent to what is considered as specific by entomologists, subject of course 

 to the final ruling of the breeder of this and the allied species. 



■L Delias ithiela. 



Thijca Ithiela,- Butler* Ann, k Mag, Nat. 



Hist. Bei\ 4, voL iv. p. 242 { 1869 ). 

 Delia* Ithiela, But], Lep. Ex, p. 62, t, xxiv. 

 £ 1 (1871) ; Proc. ZooL Soc, 1B73, 

 p. 30, n. IB, 



This is another of those species 

 which are at present only known to 

 the writer by the original figure and 

 description, both of which are accord- 

 ingly reproduced. 



ft Abe supra nigra, velut in D* Hor&- 

 jUldio * cinereo plagiatee et maculats; 

 pustic;e macula subcostal! apud basin 

 aureo-tiava ; maculis quatuor diBcaJibus et uno apicnli albidis; area abdominal i albicante (baud tiavo 

 niaeulaia) : corpus nigrescens, antennis nigris ; ahe subtus fere velut in D* HorsJieldw t maculis 

 posticarum multo minor ibus, latiue separatism corpus einereurn, abdomine albicante, antennis nigrie, 

 cinereo squamosis: exp> alar, unc. 3, liu . BJ," 



Haw.— MkIelv PunmBuhi ; " Pomm^ urolU lint, Mas. & W. \\\ Saunders)/' 



This is another differentiated or local race of an Indian species, the 1). belladonna, Fabr. 



Fio, \W.— thlin* ithieta. 



5. Delias hyparete, var. metarete, (Tab* XXIV,, figs, 13 ,? , 14 ¥ .) 

 Papitic Ihjjwrrie, Linotens, Mus. Ulr. p» 247 (1764 j \ SyHt. Nut. i. 2, p, 76a, n. 92 (1767). 

 Delia* mcUtrttt, Bull. Trans. Linn. Sou. eer, 2, ZooL vol. i, p. 550, a, 1 (1877), 



Male. — Wings above greyish-white ; anterior wings with the neuration blackish, tbe apical third 

 dusted witb blackish, and with a series of marginal black spots at tbe apices of the nerrulea ; posterior 

 wings witb tbe apices of tbe nervulea and tbe outer margin irregularly blackish, tbe red submarginal spots 

 beneath giving & roseate tint above. Anterior wings beneath as above, hut with the apical blackish area 

 more broken, and containing a series of five greyish-white spots. Posterior wings beneath greyish-white, 

 the neu ration blackish, the inner area bright ochraceouu, and witb a submarginal series of large red spots, 

 the largest towards anal angle, outwardly and somewhat broadly margined witb black, and inwardly more 

 narrowly and obscurely with the same colour from apex to the lower median nervulo. Body above and 

 beneath dark greyish ; legs dark greyish, more or leas streaked with blackish. 



Female, Form n. — Anterior wings above more or less suffused with blackish, the cell and inner area 

 from lower median nervule to margin being palest ; five or six distinct, but obscure, greyish subapical 

 spots. Posterior wings above, with the outer margin (not reaching apex of cell) broadly blackish, the 



* Synonymic with B. belladonna, Fabr*, an Indian species. 



