Galapagos Species Database

Male. — Head, collar, and thorax metallic slate color; palpi yellowish white with dark rings on second and third joints; abdomen above fuscous black with white segmental lines, underneath yellowish white. Fore wing slate color; a broad white fascia from near base of costa to near middle of inner margin, outwardly shaded with orange cinnamon from below cell; a triangular white spot medially on costa containing a black point on costal edge; a smaller subterminal spot on costa; an erect postmedial white bar- on inner margin to vein 5 continuing as a fine indistinct line to the smaller white costal spot; termen rather broadly white suffused with ochraceous orange; an interrupted terminal black line; cilia mostly black, at apex white. Hind wing hair brown, the cilia tipped with white. Fore wing below hair brown; a whitish spot on costa before apex (Schaus, 1923).