Original description by Andrey Avinoff: I received this wonderful new species through the kindness of Mr. Hunnyngton, in honour of whom I have named this minute Parnassius.

Apparently this new species belongs to the acco-group, as may be seen by the corneous bag sphragis of the female and the characteristic white scaled veins of the slightly pinkish surface of the underside of the secondaries.

A dark crescent in the cell seems to be formed by modified black outlines of the obliterated basal and anal red eyelets.

The hindwing has no central markings at all, the whole pattern consisting of the submarginal lunulae on the black basal area.

The cilia are very long and of the whitish ground-colour of the wings.The antennae are yellowish grey, gradually darkening at the extremity.

The corneous pouch of the female, being of the general shape and formation of that of acco is comparatively shorter and does not reach so far in surrounding the upper part of the body.