BALTIA. 150 



582. Baltia shawl, Bates (Mesapia), Henderson $ Humes Lahore to 

 Yarkund, 1873, p. 30o; Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i, 1878, p. 228, 

 J J; ?VZ. 6W. Jtes. '2nd Yark. Miss., Lep. 1879, p. 3, pi. l r 

 fig-. 5 rf ; ? W. Lep. lad. vi, 1904, p. 1-44, pi. 52:?, tigs. 2, 2 - 

 2e, J$. 



d 1 . Upperside : dead white ; base of wings irrorated with black 

 scales. Fore wing : costal margin very narrowly yellowish, costal 

 and subcostal nervures irrorated with black scales, a discocellular 

 elongate oblique black spot; a narrowly subtriangular short oblique 

 preapical black bar, its apex downwards, and a series of inwardly 

 triangular black spots on the termen, these narrow posteriorly and ' 

 reach from the apex of wing to vein 1. Hind wing: uniform, the 

 irroration of black scales more extended than on the fore wing. 

 Underside : fore wing white ; costa and apex irrorated with black 

 scales, the costa and termen margined with a line of pinkish 

 yellow ; the black discocellular spot, the black preapical bar and 

 terminal series of black spots much as on the upperside, but the 

 last is ill-defined, somewhat diffuse at apex and does not descend 

 below vein 3. Hind wing : white with a dull pinkish tinge all over ; 

 the whole surface irrorated with black scales that form a broad 

 elongate patch on posterior half of the wing and an obscure curved 

 macular discal band beyond the cell; discocellulars defined with 

 black. $ differs from the c? as follows : Upperside : somewhat 

 thickly irrorated all over with black scales. Fore wing with the 

 discocellular black spot and terminal series of inwardly-pointed 

 triangular black spots as in the c? , but the latter more complete, 

 extends from apex to tornus, the spots are larger and there is no 

 preapical bar, but a complete, outwardly dentate, curved discal 

 black band that crosses the wing from costa to dorsum. Hind 

 whig : the irroration of black scales very dense in a broad patch 

 posteriorly, and so arranged as to form a curved macular discal 

 band. Underside : similar to that of the c? , but on the fore 

 wing there is a complete terminal series of inwardly triangular 

 black spots and a complete, outwardly dentate, curved discal black 

 baud; while on the hind wing the irroration of black scales is 

 more dense. In both sexes the antenna are white annulated with 

 black, the club black ; head whitish ; thorax and abdomen fuscous 

 black ; beneath : head and thorax fuscous black, abdomen promi- 

 nently white. 



Escp. rf $ 34-50 mm. (T34-1-99"). 



Hah. Within our limits recorded from the Karakoram Moun- 

 tains at an elevation of 18,000 feet ; found also beyond British 

 territories in the Pamirs and Tibet. 



583. Baltia butleri, Moore (Synchloe), P. Z. S. 1882, p. 256, pi. 11, 

 fi<rs. 6, 6 a, $ ; Eirby, Entomologist, 1894, p. 100 ; id. Allen's 

 Nat. Lfbr., Butt, ii, 189(5, p. 156 ; Moore, Lep. 2nd. vi, 1904, 

 p. 145, pi. 522, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, rf $ . 



J $ . Closely resembles B. slimvi, from which it differs as 



