Baltia shawi, the Shaw's dwarf, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites.

Male on upperside is pale white; base of wings irrorated with black scales.

Hindwing: 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.

Hindwing: the irroration of black scales very dense in a broad patch posteriorly, and so arranged as to form a curved macular discal band.

Recorded from the Karakoram mountains at an elevation of 18,000 feet (5,500 m); found also in the Pamirs and Tibet.