Excerpt from The Gardens' Bulletin, Straits Settlements, 1918-1921, Vol. 2: A Journal Reflecting the Activities of the Botanic Gardens of the Straits Settlements, and Published as Material Is Available; Pp. 1-454, With 28 Plates
The butterfly is 30 - 35 mm. From tip to tip of its upper wings. The wings are silky lavender blue above shading slightly towards black, then bordered with a narrow line of black, outside a very narrow white line, with a black dot just inside the border on the lower wings and a fine slightly twisted black tail from the edge against it, this tail just tipped with White. Below the wings are dove grey with darker White-bordered wave markings and eyes chiefly in the outer half, and with a black eye marking against an orange patch at the hinder angle of the hinder wings. The body is steel grey below, and with the wings closed the insect at rest is well hidden by the pattern. The female insect is duller in colour above than the male especially by having much more black suffused through the blue 011 the upper surface of the wings: otherwise its colours are similar.
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