Adult female ovate, higly convex, depressed posteriorly; with a strongly marked rounded tumescence on each side of the dorsum. Colour dull olivaceous brown, dusted with mealy secreation which is condensed in to athick covering on the marginal area. Dense, vertical, waxy bands, of an ochreous white colour arise from the stigmatic areas on each side, extending far onto the dorsum. A long stout curling white filament arises from near the posterior extremity on each side extending upwards and backwards.