STRADLEY, RONON, STEVENS & YOUNG
                    2600 One Commerce Square
                     Philadelphia, PA  19103



Direct Dial:   (215) 564-8115

                                        December 4, 1995

FILED VIA EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549

Attention:     Filings - Rule 497(j)

          Re:  Delaware Group Decatur Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") 
               File Nos.:  2-13017 and 811-2715
               CIK No.:  027574                              

Dear Sir/Madam:

          Pursuant to Rule 497(j) under the Securities Act of
1933 (the "Act"), this is to certify on behalf of the Fund that
the forms of Prospectuses and Statements of Additional
Information for the Decatur Total Return Fund Series and the
Decatur Income Fund Series and Supplements to the Prospectuses
for the Fund's Institutional Classes that would have been filed
under paragraphs (b) or (c) of this section do not differ from
that contained in the most recent amendment, Post-Effective
Amendment No. 104 to the Registration Statement, electronically
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to
Rule 485(b) under the Act on November 27, 1995.

                                        Very truly yours,



                                        /s/Bruce G. Leto
                                        Bruce G. Leto   

cc:  Richelle S. Maestro, Esquire



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