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DELIAS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
somewhat more broadly striped beneath, which has been erroneously described as being from Celebes in conse- 
livia. quence of a mistake on the part of the collector Doherty. — livia Fruhst. (56 d) is a form discovered on Lombok 
at an elevation of about 2000 ft., which has always much fewer and narrower red patches on the hindwing 
siecheri beneath. — pagenstecheri Fruhst. may be recognised by the shorter black stripes on the under surface and the 
washed-out submarginal spots of the hindwing, which are more orange-coloured than red. Sumbawa, rare. — 
alorensis. alorensis Fruhst. (52 a) is the most easterly offshoot yet known, distinguished by broader light yellow subapical 
spots on the forewing, dark ochre-yellow tinge at the base and a complete row of intensively red submarginal 
spots on the hindwing, which appear on the upperside as faint pale pink spots. Upper surface of the hindwing 
light yellow instead of whitish or grey-blue as in the eastern subspecies of periboea. Alor. 
fasciata. D. fasciata Bothsch. (51 e) is peculiar to Sumba, of Australian aspect and somewhat similar above to 
argenthona F. 
sumbawana. D. sumbawana Bothsch., from Sumbawa, with only one known subspecies, minerva Fruhst. (52 a), 
which on Lombok flies rapidly round the tops of high trees at an elevation of 2000 ft. in company with livia. 
minerva differs considerably from sumbawana in the greenish yellow instead of light orange colour and in having 
the submarginal red crescents on the underside of the hindwing scarcely half as broad. 
splendida. D. splendida Bothsch. is a magnificent species, which beneath is deceptively like Hwphina laeta Hew. (65 e). 
From Timor. 
argenthona. D. argenthona F. (53 e). : above with the apex of the forewing somewhat more broadly suffused with 
black than in fasciata. Hindwing with the red spots of the under surface showing through in rose-colour. The $ 
occurs in two forms, one with the upper surface entirely light yellow and another with the distal half of the hind- 
fragalactea ' wing entirely black: seminigra form. nov. (55 a). — fragalactea Btlr. (58 e), with red apex to the cell and somewhat 
broader black submarginal bands on the hindwing, may be regarded as a seasonal form, perhaps even only a 
casual aberration. Australia. 
D. schoenbergi Bothsch. (56 c). A species distinguished by its size and the peach-blossom-coloured 
tint of the hindwing, which is very rare and inhabits Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. The under surface 
of the hindwing is of light yellow ground-colour with weaker black discal spot and larger red submarginal spots 
than isabellae Bothsch. (56 d) from the island of Ysabel. — choiseuli Bothsch., from Choiseul, with both surfaces 
still more broadly margined with black and with a more conspicuous black median band on the hindwing, may 
be regarded as a highly specialised transitional form, the $ of which is adorned above with a series of five roundish 
submarginal patches on the hindwing. 
timorensis. D. timorensis is one of the most gaily coloured known species and is confined to the islands of the Timor 
Group, timorensis Bdv. (= vishnu Moore) (54 b, c), in my collection from Timor, Wetter, Babber and Kisser, 
gardineri. SS with whitish, $$ with gold-yellow colour at the base of the forewing beneath. — gardineri Fruhst. (54 c), 
from Timor Laut, with dark ochre-vellow colour at the base and much broader black distal margin on the under 
surface of both wings. 
poecilia. D. poecilia Foil. (54 d). Hitherto only known from the northern Moluccas. The red submarginal band 
cdrla. of the hindwing beneath narrower than in edela subsp. nov. (54 d) from Obi. an island form which shows above 
a broad deep black apical area with 5 white oblong spots and very broad black border to the hindwing, at the 
distal margin of which are scattered 6 white dots. The $ is unknown. 
saeha. D. sacha Gr.-Sm., above very similar to edela, but with the'black distal border of both wings more reduced, 
bears on the under surface of the hindwing quite near to the distal margin narrow ochre-yellow spots, the basal 
part of the hindwing somewhat lighter yellow and the orange-coloured subanal tinge somewhat more extended 
than in poecilia. Bare on the island of Obi. 
alberti. D. alberti Bothsch. (56 d) closely resembles sacha beneath, but the preapical spots of the forewing are 
more broadly white, the submarginal spots of the hindwing lighter, more than twice as broad, their proximal 
black bordering is broader anteriorly and the disc of the hindwing is dusted with black. Choiseul. where it occurs 
together with schoenbergi choiseuli Bothsch. 
D. mysis appears to replace the Indian hyparete in the Papuan region and shows the same tendency as 
mysis. the latter to local variation. The oldest form is well known from Australia. — mysis F. (54 c) is characterised 
by the most extended black margining of both wings and the row of white subapical patches on the forewing. 
aestiva. A smaller, lighter-spotted dry-season-form was named aestiva by Butler. North Australia, Queensland. — 
nemea. nertiea subsp. nov., from Merauke, Dutch South-West New Guinea, is essentially smaller and the Gd have beneath 
onca. a strikingly narrow red submarginal band, which bisects a very broad deep blue-black border. — onca subsp. nov., 
Jara. from Milne Bay (British New Guinea), forms a transition to lara Bdv., from Dutch North-West New Guinea, 
from which it differs in having the red and black bands on the underside of both wings almost twice as broad. — 
schoenbergi. 
isabellae. 
choiseuli. 
