The female resembles the female of Tanaecia cocytus  but apart from the difference in the shape of the forewing the ground colour on the upperside is a darker brown; there are five not four dingy white discal spots, the upper two and the lower two subequal; the inwardly oblique postdiscal dark band very diffuse and much broader.
The female exhibits comparable features to those of Tanaecia cocytus, but displays distinct differences in forewing shape and upperwing coloration; it has five white spots on its discal area, with the upper two and lower two being roughly equivalent in size; the postdiscal dark band is more spread out and wider.