228 Mr. F. Moore on new Species of Lepidoptera. 
the interspaces between the markings on the fore wing are 
very much paler. 
Exp. 12 inch. 
Hab. Gogra, Changchenmo (15,000 feet), Ladak ; Karatagh 
lake, on snow (16,890 ft.), Yarkund. 
Pierine. 
BALTIA, n. g. 
Fore wing very short, costa considerably arched from the 
base, apex and posterior angle rounded, exterior margin ob- 
lique; costal vein short; subcostal vein arched tc end of the 
cell, five-branched, first and second branches arising at equal 
distance apart before the end of the cell and terminating on 
the costa before the apex; third branch bent near its base 
but beyond the discocellulars, at its middle, and immediately 
before its termination before the apex; the fourth and fifth 
branches, and the radial branch starting respectively below 
from each of these angles, the fourth branch being very short, 
and in the female the radial starts from end of the cell; cell 
broad ; discocellulars of nearly equal length, oblique, slightly 
bent inward ; median vein three-branched, at equal distances ; 
submedian curved: hind wing long, somewhat oval, slightly 
broader than fore wing; apex and exterior margin very convex, 
abdominal margin long; costal vein short; subcostal three- 
branched; cell broad ; discocellulars oblique, upper shortest ; 
median three-branched; submedian nearly straight. Body 
small; abdomen short; thorax and front of head clothed with 
long lax hairs. Palpi very long, slender, densely hairy be- 
neath. Legs short, femora fringed beneath with long lax 
hairs ; antenne short, club large and spatulate. 
Allied to Mesapia (M. peloria, Hewits. Exot. Butt. i. 
Pieride, pl. 2. f. 15). 
Baltia Shawiti. 
Mesapia Shawii, Bates, in Henderson’s ‘Lahore to Yarkund,’ p. 805 
(1873), 9. 
Male. Upperside white ; base of both wings densely black- 
speckled ; fore wing with the costal edge ochreous and slightly 
black-speckled ; a large black triangular oblique spot at end 
of the cell; a short transverse subapical black band, and a 
marginal row of black decreasing triangular spots: hind wing 
sparsely and minutely speckled with dark grey, the speckles 
dense across the disk, and there forming a curved sinuous 
indistinct band, a slight black streak at end of the cell.. Body 
black. Palpi ochreous above, fringed with black beneath. - 
