Colour Sergent Female

Description:

Spotted in Bidasalle hills on Nov 13th. Below description in wiki actually helps to identify it as female ! Male: upperside black with snow-white markings more or less edged with irrorations of blue scales. Female: Upperside black, the markings similar to those in the male, but orange-yellow and much broader; on the fore wing the discal band complete, the inner subterminal band much broader and better defined. Underside: the ground-colour a paler brown than in the male, the markings as on the upperside but pinkish white, the dark brown blotches in the interspaces and the series of dark discal spots on the hind wing more prominent.