DELIAS. 421- 
Delias flm-alha, Marsliall, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1882, p. 759. 
Delias belladonna^ var. aclelma, Mitis, Iris, 1893, p. 130. 
" Upperside white : foro wing with the veins and veinlets broadlj- clouded with black, leaving 
only a row of lanceolate white spots on the outer margin, and another row of more linear 
marks extending across the disc ; hind wings with the veins and veinlets sharply defined with 
black ; discoidal and median veins clouded with black, the latter broadly so ; also a marginal 
row of angulate lunar marks ; anterior base and anal angle bright yellow. 
" Underside : fore wing as in the upperside, but the white markings more clearly defined, those 
near the anterior angle being yellowish ; hind wing with the dark colour broader, and the 
white spaces nearly covered with yellow. Shape of wings as in P. helladoima. 
" Expanse 3| in. Darjeeling." {Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C.) 
This species is represented in China by two very distinct local races which 
I describe as follows : — 
Var. SUbnubila, var. nov. (Plate XXXVII. figs. 7 d' , 8 J.) Male. Primaries heavily 
suffused with black ; there are some elongate internervular patches of the ground-colour on 
the central area, and a streak in snbmedian interspace ; marginal spots whitish and tri- 
angular. Secondaries whitish suiFused with blackish, the ground-colour showing as inter- 
nervular patches and a streak in the cell ; abdominal margin broadly whitish merging into 
bright yellow towards anal angle. Under surface as in the type, but there is less white on 
primaries. 
Female. Darker ; markings on secondaries tinged with yellow, and with the exception of a 
yellowish streak on its outer edge the abdominal margin is entirely whitish. 
Occurs at Moupiu, Huang- mu-chang, and Pu-tsu-fong, Western China, in 
July and August. 
Var. adelma, ilitis*. (Plate XXXVII. figs. 5 J , $ .) Male. Black with greyish streaks in 
the cell and between the nervules on all the wings ; the marginal spots are greyish and smaller 
than in var. subnubila. Under surface similar to that of var. subnuhila, but there is less white 
in the markings. 
Female. Urownish black ; the abdominal margin is broadly whitish tinged outwardly with 
yellowish. 
Occurs at Chang-yang, Central China, in June and July. 
L. sariaca appears to be even more variable than D. belladonna. Some 
* Seeing that Herr Mitis had recently described two forms of D. helladonnn from China, I sent 
him a proof impression of my Plate XXXVII. , asking him to be good enough to say if either of the 
figures thereon agreed with the specimens he had named and described. In reply I am informed 
that figures 5 and 6 represent D. hdladonna, var. adelma, Mitis, and that figures 3 and 4 agree 
with D. belladonna, var. zelima. Herr Mitis is certainly in error in referring var. adelma to D. 
belladonna, as it is undoubtedly a form of D. sanaca, whichmay be readily seen by the shape of 
the yellow discoidal streak on under surface of secondaries. 
