Upperside brown with a greenish gloss ; costal streak of forewing ochreous yellow in the male, less prominent in the female ; male with a blackish subbasal patch. Cilia of both wings short and brownish white. Body dark brown ; abdomen with greyish segmental bands. Underside, forewing brown, becoming bluish black along the base of the costa ; posterior margin broadly brownish white ; hindwing bluish black ; veins of both wings brownish white, the space between them having a greyish blue parallel line running their entire length. Both wings also with the black ochreous-yellow-encirled basal spot. Thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, legs, middle of abdomen, and anal tuft ochreous yellow. Femora and tibiae with a black spot ; sides of abdomen black, the segmental bands prominent, Cilia greyish.