U4 LEPIDOPTEIIA INBICA. 



Our illustration on Plate 522, fig. 1, la, is from a male in our possession 

 received from Mr. Elwes. 



Chinese Species. — Parajneris Duhernardi (Pieris Dubei'nardi, Oberthiir, Etudes 

 Ent. ix. p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 6, c? (1884). Aporia Dubernardi, Leech, Batt. of China, 

 ii. p. 467, pi. 36, fig. 8, ? (1894). Habitat. W. China.— Parajneris Davidis, 

 (Pieris Davidis, Oberthiir, Btud. Ent. ii. p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5, c? (1876). Leech, 

 Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 57. Aporia Davidis, Leech, Butt, of China, ii. p. 468, 

 pi. 36, fig. 1, S (1894). Piei'is Davidina, Oberth. Etud. Ent. xv. p. 8, pi. 3, fig. 20 

 (1891). Habitat. W. China ; E. YihQt.^Parajneris Venata (Pieris Davidina -yar. 

 Venata, Leech, Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 58. Aporia Davidis var. Venata, Leech, 

 Butt, of China, ii. p. 469, pi. 36, fig. 3, ? (1894). Habitat. W. China. 



Genus BALTIA. 



Baltia, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 288. Kirby, Entomologist, 1894, p. 100 ; id. Allen's 

 Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 156 (1896). Dixey, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894, pp. 249, 334. 



Male. Wings small. Foreicing short, triangular ; costa considerably arched 

 from the base, apex and posterior angle rounded, exterior margin oblique ; costal 

 vein short ; subcostal vein arched to end of the cell, four-branched, the first and 

 second branches free and arising at equal distance apart before end of the cell and 

 terminating on the costa before the apex ; third branch bifid, bent slightly at some 

 distance beyond end of the cell, at its middle, and again immediately before its 

 termination before the apex, the fourth and upper radial each starting respectively 

 below from these angles, tlie fourth branch being very short, the lower radial also 

 emitted from the subcostal at some distance beyond end of the cell (in the female 

 the lower radial starts either from the upper end of the cell, or at some distance 

 beyond as in the male). Cell broad ; discocellalar oblique, slightly bent inward in 

 its middle ; median vein three-branched, the branches at equal distances apart ; 

 submedian curved. Eindwing rather long, somewhat oval, slightly broader than the 

 forewing ; apex and exterior margin very convex, the abdominal margin long ; costal 

 vein short ; subcostal two-branched ; cell broad ; discocellulars oblique, upper 

 shortest, the radial from their angle ; median three-branched ; upper submedian 

 nearly straight, lower short. Bodi/ small ; abdomen short, compactly scaled ; 

 thorax and front of head clothed with long lax hairs ; palpi very long, slender, 

 densely hairy beneath ; legs short, claws bifid ; femora fringed beneath with long lax 

 hairs ; antennae short, the club large, rather long, spatulate, and compressed. 



Type. — B. iShawii. 



BALTIA SHAWII (Plate 522, fig. 2, 2a, (?, 2b, c, ? ). 



Mesapia Hhaicii, Bates, Henderson and Hume's, Lahore to Yarkaud, p. 305, ? (1873). .Staudinger 

 and Schatz, Exot. Schmott.ii. p. 59 (1886). 



