[3] The ground colour on the upperside of the males is white, sparsely irrorated (speckled) at base of forewings and hindwings with black scales.

Underside is white with the cell and apex of forewing suffused with sulphur yellow, the orange patch of the upperside shows through by transparency, its inner edge margined anteriorly by a very obscure oblique fuscous band.

On the underside the apex of forewing and whole surface of hindwing suffused lightly, or in specimens from very dry localities heavily, with ochraceous.

and it has the black apical area on the forewing darker, broader, occupying about a third of the wing; the orange patch enclosed within it is proportionately narrower, so that the black on its inner margin has the appearance of being broader proportionately than it is in the typical form.

[4] The larva is narrow and uniformly green with a yellow, white, or pink-tinged line along each side.