The wings of the adult butterflies are brown with the outer half of the fore wings a darker brown. The outer half of each forewing is marked by and irregular row of cream spots and a blue centred orange eye spot. The inner half of each fore wings has two deep orange bars. The hind wings are brown with the outer half again being darker and having a wavy orange marginal line and a row of five small blue eyespots. The underside are similar to the upper surfaces but each fore wing has three orange bars and the colour of each hind wing is mottled red brown. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

The species is found in Indonesia, New Guinea and neighbouring islands. Only one specimen is recorded for Australia: from Rimbija Island N.T.

Further reading :

Michael F. Braby, Butterflies of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 577-578.

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