The forewing beneath somewhat darker than above, the apex and part of the distal margin being dusted with ashy grey The ocelli are not brown -yellow, but light with ochre -yellow ring, these more prominent than above.

The hindwing beneath densely dusted with white-grey, bearing a more or less prominent, brown, distally somewhat dentate, median band, at the outside of which there is sometimes a larger, somewhat diffuse, grey costal spot and usually a small white central one.

is lighter above than the nymotypical embla, with more numerous and larger black eyespots, which moreover are broadly ringed with brown -yellow.

— unicolor Spuler is the form occurring in Lapponia; it is uniformly black-brown, the ocelli of the forewing being absent except the upper 2, which are faintly edged with red or not at all.

The form embla flies on the northern moors; succulenta according to Elwes in the woods, apparently nowhere in abundance.