The wing feathers were brown, red and purplish blue. The fruit is a spherical berry in diameter, whitish or purplish blue. The purplish blue flowers have five petals each. Mary wears a purplish blue dress and a veil. In preserved specimens, the back turns purplish blue. Between two and ten purplish blue flowers wide are arranged on a flowering stem tall. Forewings and hindwings&colon; suffused with purplish blue at base, and with anteciliary black lines. The primaries are deep purplish blue with a band of pale blue. The rump in "rothschildi" is said to be purplish blue with olive green reflections. The rump is purplish blue and the underparts are violet-blue with variable rufous patches.