The Common Mime is a butterfly of hilly regions but also found at lower elevations. It is plentiful in the pre-monsoon and monsoon period and becomes scarce later on.
   Mimes are found in open vegetation. Theycan be seen in home gardens and thin forests, but are not fond of scrublands. 
   They are common in the lowlands. 
   They minic the Blue Glassy Tiger and Dark Glassy Tiger to fool predators into thinking that they are one of these distasteful species.
   They mud puddle on stream banks in summer, and are known to bask, sitting with the wings spread wide open while feeding on nectar from flowers.
   They have a slow, reckless flight pattern but if alarmed, they escape in their usual fast papilionid flight. They typically rest in closed wing position, as Danaids.
   They hover when feeding on flowers, but not in a rapid manner as seen in other Papilionids. 
   They are blue black in color and have a series of small white marginal spots and striae on both wings. On the underside, there is a distinctive row of yellow marginal spots on the hindwing.
   Both males and females have a velvety white and black striped wing. The ventral side of the hindwings has a row of large yellow spots. The abdomen is also black and white striped.
   The Common Mime is not itself distasteful to predators, but it is protected from predators because it mimics another chemically protected butterfly, the Common Indian Crow (Euploea core).