 The basal side of these is close to the centre of wing and there are one or two patches of white.The basal part of the hindwing of the female is a darker brown than the rest of the wing.This butterfly can be distinguished from the rather similar Lapland ringlet ("Erebia embla") and the Arctic ringlet ("Erebia disa") by the fact that it has white blotches on the under surfaces of the hindwing and those butterflies do not.