Male: forewing with a golden yellow oblique discal sinuous band followed by small costal spots before the apex; base of the costa and cell, and two spots at its end also of the same colour; hindwing with a medial discal sinuous golden-yellow band, the hairy scales extending to the base also yellow.

Underside with less distinct markings as above: costa and apex of forewing and the hindwing suffused with yellow.

Body and legs golden-yellow; palpi and front of thorax beneath saffron-yellow.

Female: differs only in the discal band being narrow; and not having the yellow costal streak.Edward Yerbury Watson[4]"Nearest allied species is Oriens gola.

(Frederic Moore) The larvae are known to feed on Axonopus compressus and Oplismenus compositus.