Blue-spotted arab

Description

Upperside of male forewing has a pale salmon-pink ground colour,this colour paler outwardly;base heavily irrorated (sprinkled) with bluish-grey scales that extend outwards and are merged with a black patch that occupies the apex of the cell and spreads along the discocellulars;terminal third of wing black with enclosed spots of the ground colour in interspaces 3,4,5 and 9,the spot in 4 sometimes absent,the inner edge of the black area emarginate at interspaces 2 and 4;the outer margin with a series of minute terminal specks of ground colour in the interspaces.Hindwing: white,base heavily irrorated with bluish-grey scales that are extended downwards in a diffuse band parallel to the dorsum;terminal half of wing jet black.Underside: precisely like the underside of C.protractus male.Antennae,head,thorax and abdomen as in C.protractus.