This is the most common butterfly of the Pyrameis genus found in the
Islands. It is similar in colouring to the last described, but it has a
much broader red oblique indented stripe on the fore-wings. The white
apical markings are not so many or large, and it has no blue spots on
the tips of the fore-wings.
The habits and locality of the caterpillar and chrysalis are so like
those of the Atalanta, that description is not needed.
In rearing many specimens, two butterflies proved to have bright yellow
on the hind-wings in place of the red band. Whether they are a distinct
variety or not, cannot at present be positively stated.[5]
[5] See Appendix C.