The orange-yellow transverse band of the forewing has an almost uniform breadth of 8-10mm.

and is separated from the distal margin throughout; it is basally prolonged at the hindmargin and usually also accompanied proximally by yellow scales on both sides of vein 2.

in breadth, and in the distal half with thick black streaks on the interneural folds.

The hindwing beneath yellow-brown to the distal margin, at the base a little darker and more reddish; the basal dots standing out sharply; the veins and the interneural streaks black as above.

The female is considerably larger and has the transverse band of the fore wing white, interrupted in cellule lb, and the ground-colour of the hindwing above yellowish white; the dark marginal band of the latter is somewhat broader and less sharply defined; the under surface of the hindwing is light smoke-brown, somewhat darker at the distal margin and a little more yellowish at the base.