This is a rather drab species, forewings ranging from pale to dark brown with indistinct markings.

Forewing black brown with all markings obscured, or dark red-brown with the markings plainer; the edges of stigmata finely black; some ochreous scales on outside of reniform, along the course of submarginal line and at base below cell; hindwing brownish fuscous, the basal half paler in male.

flavopallida Tutt, similar, but with the lines and stigmata yellow; -- the following 5 are pale reddish; — ab.

striata Tutt with the base, stigmata, lines, and outer nervules yellow ochreous: — and ab.

rufovariegata Tutt mottled red and yellow, the stigmata edged with black: — the next 5 are dark reddish brown; — ab.

fuscovariegata Tutt, purplish-brown mottled with ochreous and with the dark blotch between the stigmata: - in the next 4 the ground colour is blackish-brown or blackish fuscous, as in typical nigricans L.; — ab.

fumida smoky brown with ochreous reniform and yellowish submarginal line; — ab.

with lines and stigmata dark, a submarginal row of wedge-shaped spots and the outer edge of reniform stigma whitish; — ab.

See Townsend et al.[2] Larva ochreous grey, paler, more greenish, at sides; lines greenish edged with black: the subspiracular line whitish and double; head with black speckling.