Common Dartlet

These creature gives beauty with its upperside dark purple-brown colored wing. size is about 1.5cm, Male : forewing with a golden yellow oblique discal sinuous band followed by small costal spots before the apex ; base of the costa and cell, and two spots at its end also of the same colour ; hindwing with a medial discal sinuous golden-yellow band, the hairy scales extending to the base also yellow. Cilia golden yellow. Underside with less distinct markings as above: costa and apex of forewing and the hindwing suffused with yellow. Body and legs golden-yellow; palpi and front of thorax beneath saffron-yellow. Female : differs only in the discal band being narrow ; and not having the yellow costal streak.