Tamil Treebrown (female)

Description:

The female is lighter colored than the male. Undersides are similar and all the markings more prominent, the lilac, ochraceous and brown shades paler; the broad discal bar on fore wing, as on the upper side, joined by a nearly vertical lilacine white band bearing the series of ocelli. . On the upper side of the forewing, it has a yellow band across the sub apical area that is absent in the male. a broad oblique white discal bar and two white pre-apical spots on the upper side of the fore wing; a large, rectangular, black sub terminal mark in interspaces and a white spot above and below it, on the upper side of the hind wing. The Tamil Tree Brown can be distinguished from all other similar species by the eye-spots on the underside of the hind wing - two of the six eye-spots are large and similar in size and shape, the others are flattened and reduced, and have no pupils.