The forewings are mostly uniformly pale ochreous, often with a golden lustre.

This species aboral surface can be any colour or combination of colours, while the oral side is uniformly pale.

There is a variant with a uniformly pale body except for the frontal part.

The hindwings are thinly scaled and uniformly pale gray.

The web linking the arms is uniformly pale.

The uniformly pale brown shell is very large (compared with the other species in this genus) and has an elongate conic shape .

The forewings are uniformly pale to medium brown.

By contrast, Voertrekkers of every social class, those who had kept themselves racially unmixed, were uniformly pale of skin and likely to remain so.

The antennae, head and body are uniformly pale greyish yellow.

The sky remained a uniformly pale green.