CERTAIN BUTTERFLY GENERA — FIELD 119 



Venation: Figure 24. Forewing with four radial veins, R5 having 

 anastomosed with R4; Ri long, only shghtly shorter than R2; R2 from 

 distinctly before apex of cell ; M2 stalked for some distance with base 

 of R34.4-t-5+Mi. Hindwing with Cu2 from distinctly beyond middle of 

 cell and not opposite to origin of Rg and with distance between bases 

 of veins Sc+Ri and Rg about equal to the distance between Cu2 and 

 M3; distance between veins Cuj and Cu2 equal to or less than distance 

 between bases of Rg and Mj. 



Legs: Tibial spurs lacking on mid and hind tibiae. Paronychium 

 (fig. 32) (not absent as reported by Klots, loc. cit., pp. 146, 219) from 

 nearly one-third to slightly more than one-half length of claw. Claw 

 (fig. 32) directed downward, but not as much so as in Phulia; dorsal 

 margin gradually curved; its long axis divergent from basal margin; 

 relatively long, at least three times as long as width at base. Tooth 

 divergent, originating from near middle, only slightly smaller than 

 distal part of claw and with its dorsal margin about equal to width 

 of claw at base. Pulvillus (fig. 32) narrow and greatly reduced, being 

 less than one-half to one-half width of claw at base. 



Genitalia: Male (figs. 8, 16) with uncus relatively broad at the 

 base, not longer than the tegumen, being about one-half the length of 

 tegumen in the type species {B. shawi) and nearly as long as the tegu- 

 men in the second species {B. huileri) ; slightly constricted near middle 

 and very gradually produced to a blunt tip; very slightly swollen just 

 behind tip; with very weakly developed lateroventral internal ridges; 

 harpe not produced apically, more rounded than in Phulia (Infra- 

 phulia) and Piercolias (Pierphulia) ; subscaphium well developed, but 

 not as much so as in Piercolias (Piercolias) ; anellus without a dorsal 

 plate; aedeagus in lateral view not distinctly broader distally than 

 through middle, dorsal incision deeper than in Phulia and about as 

 in Piercolias. 



Female (fig. 33) hardly distinct from Piercolias (Pierphulia) except 

 that the ductus bursae is longer than the bursa copulatrix with the 

 accessory pouch. Ductus bursae colorless and nonsclerotized ; eighth 

 tergite nonsclerotized dorsally or only very poorly sclerotized dorsally; 

 eighth sternite with outer genital plate large and reticulate; inner 

 genital plate weakly setulose with posterior process very greatly 

 reduced and anterior lobe broadly rounded and sometimes reduced 

 but not as much so as in Phulia (InfraphuUa). 



Habitus: The two species included in this genus present two rather 

 different types of color pattern. In both there is a large discocellular 

 spot on both surfaces of the forewing. The hindwing underneath in 

 one type (Baltia shavn) somewhat resembles Piercolias (Pierphulia) 

 in having a white grouni? color that is heavily irrorated with black 



