[4] Head and thorax pale reddish brown and thickly irrorated with grey.

A sub-lateral series of specks enclosed from fourth somite by a pinkish bordered black line.

[5] The caterpillar feeds on Stephania japonica, Cissampelos, Cocculus and Cyclea species.

It pupates in a cocoon between joined dead leaves in ground debris.

The adult is a fruit piercer and also observed to pierce skins of buffalo, zebu, tapir and even humans in labs to suck blood.