Ventral sides on males are blackish-brown tinted with violet blue. Forewings sometimes have some of the bands of the underside visible through the wing, the violet blue with some gloss in certain lights merging into the black costal and outer marginal borders.
   The hindwing with the blue colour more distinct and somewhat more glossy, covering the whole surface of the wing except the costal space and the abdominal fold which are broadly pale blackish brown, outer marginal line black, a fairly large anal orange patch, a black spot in the anal lobe, a small one between the tails, each with some silvery scales, tails black, tipped with white.
   The cilia of both wings are grey. The dorsal side is yellowish white, with bands a dark red, with more or less disconnected silvery lines inside them.   
   The forewings have a sub basal bar from the costa connected with a short streak from the base, another from the costa across the middle of the cell, both with some suffused black below them, an outwardly oblique bar from the costa across the end of the cell to the sub median vein, with a small blackish narrow and inwardly bent short bar in continuation, two short bars from the costa meeting hindwards, and a sub marginal even band which ends close to the end of the oblique band in a similar manner, a marginal even band, these two bands are so close together as to leave a thin line of the ground colour between them, with the marginal line in black, with an inner fine pale thread. 
   A hindwing with the marginal bands and lines as in the forewing, and four bands at fairly equal distances apart, all rather broad, leaving  narrow spaces of the ground colour between them; the first is basal, continued hindwards in the form of a curved streak close along the abdominal margin with the other three are ante medial, medial, and post medial, all arising from the costa, the two inner ones touching the end of the basal streak and the ends of each other on the upperside of the anal orange spot, the post-medial band narrows gradually hindwards and touches the medial band at vein 2; the anal orange patch is about the size it is on the dorsal side, and contains two similar black spots and silvery scales.
   The antennae are black, with white dots at the sides, clubs with a red tip, frons black, with a white stripe on each side.
   The head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, legs greyish white, without markings.
   On females, like the males, above and below, the violet blue tint on the upperside is somewhat paler and duller,  and the color of the wings in some examples is more brown.