Delias lara is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found in New Guinea.
Delias lara is closely related to Delias mysis but differs by the white not yellow subapical spots on the forewing recto.These are weakly developed and may be absent. On the verso the subapical spots are yellow and larger.mysis 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.
The wingspan is about .
lara is a member of the hyparete species group. In recent works lara is a junior synonym of mysis.