The male has a black-brown and blue wing, while the female has a brown wing with a wide white stripes on each side and a smaller one on top.

The male is very similar above to that of smaragdalis, only differing in having the distal blue spots in cellules 2—7 of the forewing much larger and sagittate and the transverse band on the hindwing anteriorly narrower and posteriorly completely united with the marginal line.

Forewing beneath light grey-blue at the base and before the distal margin.

In the female the forewing is black-brown above, with broad white transverse band and two white subapical spots; the hindwing above umber-brown, towards the distal margin somewhat lighter and with 8 large, angled, blue-centred, black submarginal spots and a black marginal line, thickened between the veins.

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