Red Spot Jezebel (male)

Description:

Delias descombesi, the Redspot Jezebel is a medium sized butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites. Upperside : opaque white. Fore wing : costa and terminal margin very narrowly black ; extreme base, apex broadly and termen submarginally more or less thickly irrorated with black scales, the width of this blackish border decreases posteriorly along the termen. Hind wing : termen narrowly black, the black markings of the underside show dusky bluish through transparency. Underside, fore wings : black ; an obliquely placed short broad bar along the discocellulars and a subterminal series of outwardly pointed spots, of which the anterior three lengthen into streaks, white ; the anterior and posterior margins of the cell and broad streaks, that do not reach the terminal margin, on each side of veins 1 to 4, grey. Hind wing : rich chrome-yellow ; costa and termen broadly black ; interspaces 1 to 7 with outwardly pointed, broadly triangular, yellowish-white diffuse spots on the black terminal margin, the black on the inner side of these spots produced conically inwards ; the black in interspace 7 centred with an elongate, outwardly somewhat diffuse, oval vermilion streak. (@Wikipedia)