PIERIDAE 
140 
DELIAS 
198. Delias mysis Fabricius. 
Subspecies occur in F^ew Guinea^ the Aru Islands, and elsewheie. 
198a. D. mysis mysis Fabricius. Fig. 523. 
Systema Entomologiae, p. 475, 1775. 
Q^. Above. Forewing white: costa very narroAvly, and apex, black: a series of subapical spots, white. 
Hindwing white: terineii black: scarlet band of undersurface faizitly visible. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: costal spot of subapical series, pale yellow. Hindwing white: base 
and dorsum broadly yellow: tennen broadly black with a band of subterminal spots, scarlet, usually 
extending broadly beyond vein 7. 
Q. Above. Forewing white: base dusted black: costa narrowly, apex and termen broadly, black: a 
series of subapical "spots, white. Hindwing white: termen broadly black: scarlet band of undersurface 
faintly visible. 
Beneath. Foreiving as above: base faintly yellow: subapical spots as above, but first and second 
from costa pale yellow. Hindwing Avhite: base and dorsum broadly yellow: termen very broadly black 
with a band of subterminal spots, scarlet, usually extending broadly beyond vein 7. 
Loc. Cairns 6 7 9 10. Kuranda 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Atherton 4. Ingham 5 9. 'Mackay 2 3 4. 
24o’' 18 Q. 
This subspecies is confined to northern Queensland. We have an aberrant female from Kuranda 
(Dodd), in wliich the subterminal band of hindwing beneatli is pale yellow instead of scarlet. 
198b. D. mysis oestiva Butler. Fig. 522. 
Annals Magazine Natural History 1897, p. 159. 
o^. Above. Forewing white: costa very narrowly and apex narrowly, black; a series of large subapical 
spots, white. Hindwing wdiite; termen narrowly black: scarlet band of undersurface faintly visible. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: costal spot of subapical series, pale yellow. Hindwing white: base 
and dorsum broadly pale yello^v: termen black, with a narroAv band of subterminal spots, scarlet, rarely 
extending beyond vein 7, and then as a narrow marginal streak only. 
9- Above. Forewu'ng white: costa narrowly, apex and termen, black: a series of large subapical spots 
white. Hindwdng white: termen black: scarlet band of undersurface faintly visible. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: base bi’oadly pale yelloAv: subanical spots as above, but first and 
second from costa pale yellow. Hindwing wdiite: base and dorsum broadly pale yellow: termen broadly 
black, with a narrow band of subterminal spots, scarlet. 
Loc. Cape York 5 7 8 9. Claudie B. 1 3 11. Coen 12. Darwin 8 9. 72 9. 
This is the northwestern race of and not as Butler suggested the dryseason form. Butler's 
specimens came from Darwdn and Port Essington: examples from Cape York are almost identical, but 
to the south they gradually merge into mysis mysis. 
199. Delias nysa Fabricius. 
This species is confined to Australia and appears to have no very close ally, though from some 
subspecies of T). momea (Java), it is said to be scarcely distinguishable above. 
199a. D. nysa nysa Fabricius. Fig. 531,(^3^535. 
Systema Entomologiae, p. 473, 1775. 
<?. Above. Forewing greyish 'white: costa narrowly and apex, dusted black: a spot at lower end of cell, 
black: a series of irregular subapical spots, gi-eyish -white. Hindwnng greyish white: termen ligbtly 
dusted black, -with traces of a series of terminal spots, greyish -white. 
Beneath. Forewiug greyish white: costa narroAvly, and outer area, black, with apex brown: base 
yellow: an irregular incomplete double series of subapical spots, greyish white. Hindwing dark silky 
browm: costa at base narrowly yellow: a dot at end of cell, greyish white: a complete series of small 
subl^e’-minal spots, yellow margined black. 
