[2] Males and females upperside white, in many specimens pale ochraceous yellow, veins black.

In many specimens there is a diffuse fuscous spot between the discal pair of transverse fine lines on forewing.

One constant point of difference, however, seems to be the large amount of rich ochraceous colour on the upperside of the hindwing posteriorly.

[3] "Mr. Bell noticed a female on the 10th October depositing its eggs on the tenderest leaves and buds of a banian tree and secured six, of which two were reared.

The eggs were curious and beautiful, high domed-shaped or almost conical, with an aperture at the top fitted with a deeply dentate flat cap like a cogged wheel.