Upperside: brownish black. Forewing: markings as in the male, but the cellular streak and the streaks in interspaces 1 and 2 below the cell short and formed into a broken oblique broad greyish-white band across the wing. Hindwing: markings similar to those in the male, but the basal crimson patch of the underside seen through by transparency, the transverse broad subbasal band and dorsal patch both pale yellow and much broader than in the male, and the postdiscal curved series of hastate spots obscure and ill-defined. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male, the abdomen whitish grey below and on the sides. Wingspan is 66–90 mm.  Nepal; Sikkim; Assam; Myanmar; Tenasserim; to the south extending through the Malay Peninsula to Borneo; to the east through the Shan States to Thailand and southern China. "Buddleja", "Camellia sinensis", "Citrus maxima", "Dendrophthoe glabrescens", "Loranthus parasiticus", "Loranthus pentandrus", "Loranthus yadoriki", "Nauclea rotundifolia", "Santalum album", "Taxillus chinensis", "Taxillus limprichtii", "Taxillus nigrans" and "Taxillus parasiticus". Brownish red, each segment with a transverse row of long bristles, The outer bristles black, the middle yellow. Length about 2 inches. Found in March feeding on the young leaves of the binga tree ("Nauclea rotundifolia"). Very dark reddish brown or black, smooth, sinuate; head with three sharp points and a broad truncation in front; segments of the abdomen and the front with small acute tubercular projections.