The Chocolate Albatross is a forest butterfly and prefers rainy highlands, up to a level of 910m / 3,000'.
   They are strong and swift flyers that fly close to the ground.
  They are frequently found in jungle clearings and along stream banks.
   Males are often found circling around trees and bushes. They often mudpuddles, sometimes in large numbers.
   They occasionally visit flowers and have been recorded visiting Verbena flowers in Kodagu.
   The Chocolate Albatross male is white on the ventral wing side with chocolate brown or black margins, and, bright lemon yellow on the dorsal wing side with chocolate colored markings. The female is white and densely clouded with dark brown.
   They show seasonal dimorphism and are quite variable. 
   In the wet season variation, the male is white on the dorsal side, with bluish costa and termen inwardly edged with black teeth like markings on the forewing.

   The hindwing is similarly toothed on the termen, which has a bluish inward border.

   The ventral wing side of the hindwing is bright yellow and is outwardly bordered with dark chocolate.

   Females are black on the ventral side of the forewing with four white streaks on the disc.                They have a blackish dorsal wing side of the hindwing except for the whitish discal area. The ventral wing side of the hindwing may be yellowish or whitish and have broad dark band at the termen.

   In the dry season form, which is smaller, the 

tmale has narrower black margins above.

   The female is similar to the wet-season form, but with more extensive white markings.