Its wingspan is about 48–64 mm. Body dark reddish brown slightly irrorated with grey. Forewings with traces of sub-basal line. A curved slightly dentate antemedial black line and an obscure reniform spot with an indistinct figure-of-8-shaped mark above it. A very irregularly dentate postmedial line excurved beyond the cell present. There is a pale mark with black streaks on the veins in the sinus and a pale mark on it can be seen above inner margin. The outer area variegated with pale brown and fuscous. Hindwings with indistinct wave postmedial line and a marginal dark line with some blue-grey specks found on it. Ventral side with outer area of forewings variegated with reds and purples. A brown speckled yellow patch can be seen at apex.[4]
Larva greenish with dark dorsal stria. Somites 4 to 11 with dark specks and a sub-lateral series of similar specks present. Legs and tow dorsal prominences on 11th segment dark. Larva feeds on Caesalpinia, Canthium, Cissampelos, Macadamia plants.[5]
References
^Cramer, P. [1779]–[1780]. De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America, by een verzameld en beschreeven door den heer Pieter Cramer (etc.).— 3(17–24):1–176, pls. 193–288
