Its white fore wings are boldly marked with a blotch of greyish brown at the base, and another extending from the middle of the costal margin more than halfway across.
The fore wings are ashy grey or greyish brown, marbled with darker tints, with a conspicuous white spot near the centre.
The chrysalis is greyish brown, and has a number of very short projections corresponding with the spines of the caterpillar.
This species varies in the ground colour of the forewings from reddish (typical) to greyish brown (var.
The tail is greyish brown on the upper surface, tipped with more or less rufous white, and barred with five or six rather irregular and rather faint bands of darker brown.
The under plumage is dull white, more or less tinged with rufous, spotted with irregular patches, streaks, or bars of greyish brown.
The under plumage is dusky white, splashed more or less profusely, especially on the breast and flanks, with streaky spots and splashes of greyish brown.
The female and young birds are often of an olive-greyish brown, grey below, and the wings marked as in the male bird.
It is, however, greyish brown in colour, merging into yellowish brown on the front rings.
The male is pale or greyish brown, lined and clouded with darker brown on the fore wings, and the female is whitish with brownish cross lines, and a black central V-mark on the fore wings.
The caterpillar is greyish, more or less freckled with ochreous; three lines along the back, the central one whitish, the others black and interrupted; the hairs arising from reddish warts are brown or greyish brown.
In the female the black is replaced by greyish brown, the white is dingy, and the three lateral tail feathers are edged with white.
Young birds greyish brown; immature specimens tinged on the head and belly with rust-red.
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