"(The Chinese Character)Alis niveis fascia abbreviata olivaceo-fusca, in qua litera tenuissima argentea" (Adrian Hardy Haworth (1803). Lepidoptera Britannica. London: Veneunt apud J. Murray. p. 110.) roughly translatable as "snow-white wings [with] small olive-brown band, in which [there is a] very thin silver letter".