[1][2] Male: Upperside brown, both forewing and hindwing with terminal margins much darker, and generally with more or less distinct subbasal and discal dark bands.

Forewing with a large, slightly oblique, oval, bi-pupilled, yellow-ringed black, pre-apical ocellus.

Underside similar to the underside in Y. philomela but the ochraceous-white ground colour paler, tin[clarification needed]-transverse brown strice[check spelling] coarser, the ocelli on the hindwing more distinctly in echelon, two tornal, two median, and two preapical, and on both forewing and hindwing more or less distinctly defined, subbasal, discal and subterminal brown transverse bands.

On the underside it is paler than the male, and has the subbasal, discal and subterminal transverse dark bands more clearly defined.

Underside also paler than in the wet-season form, the subbasal, discal and subterminal bands on the whole more prominent; ocelli on the hindwing reduced to mere specks.