Blue pansy

Description

Male upperside: somewhat more than half the forewing from base velvety black,apical half dull fuliginous;cell-area with or without two short transverse orange bars;a blue patch above,the tornus;the outer margin of the basal black area obliquely zigzag in a line from the middle of costa to apex of vein 2,including a large discal,generally obscure ocellus,which,however,in some specimens is prominently ringed with orange yellow.Beyond this a broad white irregularly oblique discal band followed by a short oblique preapical bar from costa;a small black orange-ringed ocellus beneath the bar,a subterminal continuous line of white spots in the interspaces and a terminal jet-black slender line;cilia alternately dusky black and white.Hindwing blue shaded with velvety black towards base;a postdiscal black white-centred orange and black-ringed ocellus in interspace 2,a round minutely white-centred velvety-black spot (sometimes entirely absent) in interspace 5;the termen narrowly white,traversed by an inner and an outer subterminal and a terminal black line;cilia white.