418 PAPILIONID^. 
Fam. PAPILIONID^. 
Subfom. PIERIN^E. 
Genus DELIAS. 
Delias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 91 (1816) ; IMoore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 139 (1881); 
Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 289 (1885). 
Pieris, section 1, Doubleday, Gen. Diuru. Lep. p. 44 (1847). 
" Anterior wings somewhat elongate ; costal margin moderately convex, the apex rounded, outer 
margin obliquely rounded, inner margin nearly straight. Costal nervure extending to about 
two thirds of the wing ; first subcostal neryule 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 discoceUular obliquely directed outwardly, lower discoeellular 
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 thii'd. 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 discoceUular 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; submedian nervure slightly curved outwardly; internal nervure reaching about 
centre of abdominal margin. Body somewhat robust ; head and pronotnm clothed with long 
hairs ; palpi porrect, extending considerably bej'ond the head, and clothed with long hairs 
beneath ; legs long and slender ; antennie with a well-formed and moderately-channelled 
apical club." {Distant, J. c.) 
Delias belladonna. (Plate XXXVII. figs. 3 c? , 4 ? .) 
Papilio belladonna, Fabrieius, Eut. Syst. iii. p. 180 (1793) ; Donovan, Nat. Hep. i. 
pi. XXXV. (1823). 
Pieris horsfieldii, Gray, Zool. Miscell. i. p. 32 (1831). 
Pieris belladonna. Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 7, pi. viii. fig. 2 (1846). 
Delias belladonna, var. horsfieldii $ , Elwes, Trans. £nt. Soc. Lond. 1888, pi. x. fig. 3. 
Delias belladonna, var. zelima, Mitis, Iris, 1893, p. 131. 
" P. H. alis oblongis integerrimis atris : anticis hyaline punctatis, posticis tlavo maculatis. 
" Papilio belladonna. Jon. fig. pict. 3. tab. 37. fig. 2. 
" Statura P. Pasithoe at major. Corpus nigrum abdominis marginibus cinereis. Alseatrse, cinereo 
punctatsB. Subtus concolores at lineola maculaque baseos albis. Posticae atrse, flavo macu- 
late macula baseos angulique ani majoribus. Subtus fere concolores." (Fabrieius, I. c.) 
