PIERIDAE 
141 
BElilAS 
g Above. Forewing pyish white: base dusted grey: costa narrowly and apex broadly, black: a series 
of small subapieal spots, greyish white. Hindwing grey, sometimes dusted black: termen irregularlv 
black with a series o± irregular terminal spots or streaks, gi-eyish wdiite. 
Beneath. Forewing with base broadly yellow: dorsum greyish white:' outer area black with apex 
brown: a series of subapieal spots, greyish white. Hindwing as in male. 
hoc. Cairns 10. Kuranda 3 4. Atherton 12. Herberton 12. Mackay 5. Rockhampton. Brisbane 5 
6 Esk. Blaekbutt 1. Rielonond R. 1 2 3 4 5.H.«Grafton 12. Bellingen 10. Port Macquarie 10. 
Manning R. 3. O uninbab 4. Sydney 2 4. Illawan-a 1 3 4 12. Blue Mts. 3. 23^ 23 9 . 
The figures illustrating this subspecies are all somewhat too dark 
ponthern Queensland, and but sparingly around Sydney. 
It occurs most abundantly in 
199b. D. nysa nivira nov. 
o’. Above Fore\yin-greyish white: costa narrowly, and apex, dusted black: a spot at lower end of 
cell, black: a senes of large irregular subapieal S])ots, greyish white. Hindwing greyish white: ter- 
men lightly dusted black, with traces of a series of subtenninal spots, greyish white. 
Beneath. Forewing white: costa narrowly and apex broadly, black: base orange-yellow an 
irregular incomplete double series of subapieal spots, greyish white. Hindwing silky black: costa at 
base naiTowly orange-yellow: a dot at end of cell, white: a complete series of subterminal spots, 
orange-yellow. 
0. Above. Forewing greyish white: base dusted grey: costa narrowly and apex broadly, black: a 
senes of subapieal spots, greyish ■white. Hindwing black: base dusted grey: a series of faint terminal 
dots, gi-eyish wliite. 
Beneath. Forewing with base broadly orange-yellow: dorsum greyisli white: outer area black with 
a series of subapieal spots, greyish white. Hindwing as in male. 
Tx)C. Coen 10 11. fit? 2o. 
200. Delias ennia Wallace. (Waigiou). 
This species occurs in New Guinea and the adjacent islands. 
200a. D. ennia nigidius Miskin. Fig. 529, 530,(5^ 
Transactions Entomtdogical Society London 1884. p. 93. 
white: costa narrowly and apex, black: a series of small subapieal spots, white. 
Hindwmg white: termen narrowly black, with a series of terminal spots, sometimes reduced to faint 
dots, whitish. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: subapieal spots larger and first and second from costa pale yellow. 
Hindwmg white: base and dorsum yellow: termen black, with a series of large terminal spots, yellow. 
Q. Above. Foiwing white: costa, apex and termen, broadly black; a series of small subapieal spots, 
white. Hindwing grey: termen broadly black, with sometimes a series of terminal dots, wdiitisli. 
Beneath. Forewing^ as above; subapieal spots lareei*, and those near costa, pale yellow. Hindwing 
black: costa broadly white: base and dorsum dusted yellow: a series of lat’ge terminal spots, yellow. 
hoc. Coen 11. Cairns 6. Kuranda 1 2 3 4 5 G 7 12. Herberton 1. 22d^ 25o. 
This subspecies is confined to northern Australia. A single male from Coen has the terminal spots 
of hindwing beneath larger and of a decidedly orange colour. 
201. Delias aruna Boisduval. (New Guinea). 
The typical form has a large scarlet central area on hindwing beneath. 
201a. D. aruna inferna Butler. Fig. 528,(5^ 
Lepidoptera Exotica, p. 03, pi. 24, f. G, 1871. 
Above. Forewing cadmium yellow (floury oi’ange) : costa very narrowly and apex, black. Hindwing 
cadmium yellow: dorsum greyish yellow: termen lined black. 
Beneath. Forewing black: dorsum narrowly greyish: an obscure narrow streak along subcostal, 
and an irregular bar on discocellulars, yellow. Hinclwing black: a broad subcostal streak at base, 
scarlet. ^ « 
