Its forewings have an axe-head shape. The caterpillar has a distinctive swollen thoracic tumidity. Tumidity is glossy green. A mottled white band runs from the thorax to the conical horn.
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The tumidity is, in fact, rather pronounced relative to the size of the shell.
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
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The orchestra added little apart from a certain unwelcome tumidity to music that would have been more at home as a Hollywood soundtrack.
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Varicose veins usually result in tumidity, atony and pains in the legs as well as eczema and ulcers, causing great trouble to the patients.
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A dark green patch found just posterior to the orbicular. The caterpillar has a distinct berry-shaped tumidity on its thoracic region. Only primary setae present. Bifid prominence and anal claspers dull black.
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There is a very faint angulation below the sinus-area. The colour of the thin shell is semi-transparent white, with hardly any gloss. The spire is conical, subscalar from the slight short tumidity below the suture. The protoconch consists of 4 embryonic whorls, which are buff, darkening to orange at the tip.
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In the earlier whorls there is a slight tumidity below the suture, a slight contraction in the middle, and a slight swelling around the base of each whorl. This last feature is feebly persistent in the later whorls, but otherwise these are flat in profile. There is a sharp carinated angle, and the base of the shell is almost flat, with an angled tubercled umbilical edge. The suture is linear, almost invisible.
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Colour: Theshell has a brownish yellow colour, but below the epidermis there is a thin pure white porcellanous layer, through which and the epidermis the sheen of the nacreous layer gleams. The base is whiter, the epidermis there being very thin. Inside, the aperture shows an exquisite roseate nacre. The spire is high, with a slightly concave contour, the lines of which are hardly swollen out by the slight tumidity of the body whorl.
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The suture is linear, not impressed, a little coarse, slightly marginated by the overlap of the succeeding on the preceding whorl and the slight tumidity caused by the infra-sutural puckerings. The round aperture is very oblique, with a soft pearly nacre all round. The outer lip is very slightly descending, thick, and bevelled outwards to a sharp edge. There is a broad thin hyaline pad spread over the body that connects the outer lip and the columella, which is broad, thick, shallowly excavated, with a slight external median horizontal tooth or ridge.
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This system gradually dies out and leaves the surface smooth, only the row of infrasutural tubercles survives in an enlarged but depressed form. And springing from these some sinuous oblique and slightly irregular longitudinal puckerings appear on the body whorl, which is nearly bisected by the sharpish, slightly expressed, finely tubercled carina. This bisection of the body whorl arises from the great prolongation and tumidity of the base On this base, below the carina, are five narrow, equally parted, spiral threads, and two intra-umbilical ones, which are more contiguous. Besides this larger system of sculpture, the whole surface is covered with minute, oblique, irregular, and interrupted puckerings of the epidermis.
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