Grote (1872) original description. "Smaller and slighter than
C. palaeogama, of the same general habit, with paler more evenly colored primaries. Fore wings pale grey with a greenish tint. All the lines black, narrow, often indistinct. Basal half-line and t. a. line as in
C. palaeogama. T p. line with less prominent teeth, and differing by being connected with and encircling the inconspicuous sub-reniform, which is usually open, a, little paler than the ground color of the wing, moderate, sub-pyriform, excavated outwardly. The sub-median sinus is prominent and more broadly marked: the t. p. line followed by a faint whitish shade. The s. t. space is inconspicuously brownish; s. t. line faint, preceded by a whitish shade much as in
C. palaeogama. Terminal interspaceal points evident. Secondaries dark yellow, a little paler than
C. palaeogama; bands similar, the median a little broader, the marginal proportionally a little narrower than in
C. palaeogama. Thorax pale grey, concolorous with primaries; thoracic lines sub-obsolete.
[description by Charles Covell] Forewing light gray; ST line whitish, scalloped; AM and PM lines black with white accents; lower PM line forms a dash near inner margin; black basal dash present in some specimens. Hindwing banded orange and black.
