Small Pointed Pierrot

Male upperside: violet with a brilliant effulgence (brightness) in fresh specimens, forewing: costa and termen narrowly edged with dark brown, a dark brown transverse short streak also on the discocellulars. Hindwing: costa, termen and discocellulars marked as in the forewing, but the dark brown edging slightly broader, on the termen it is produced obscurely inwards in the posterior interspaces; dorsum somewhat broadly dusky brown. Underside: dull whitish, forewing: basal half of costa shaded with brown; a streak from base between vein 12 and the subcostal vein, an inwardly oblique, very broad, lunular subbasal spot, a spot on the discocellulars, a transverse discal band, a transverse subterminal series of inwardly conical spots and a slender anteciliary line, dark brown; the transverse discal band is maculate (blurred) and broken, its anterior portion to vein 3 outwardly oblique, its posterior portion below vein 3 shifted well inwards and nearly vertical; the costa above vein 12, a postdiscal transverse irregular cloud very broad anteriorly, narrow and faint posteriorly, and a transverse inner subterminal lunular line, pale brown. …