Colour bright reddish yellow to reddish brown, ridges and margin darker or even paler in some examples; a few irregular dark brown radiating lines or chains of spots more or less distinct in different examples. The whole dorsal surface covered with a thin transparent waxy or glassy coating. Eyes black, prominent, distinctly defined. Adult broadly oval, broadest across median area and roughly pointed on front and behind giving it lanceolate form. Moderately convex above, with sharply defined median longitudinal and two transverse ridges, the median ridge touching the margin in front and terminating at the anal aperture, the anterior transverse ridge meeting the margin between the stigmatic clefts, the posterior ridge extending to a point about midway between the second stigmatic and the anal cleft.