[3][2] Meyrick used three specimens collected in native forest in Invercargill by Alfred Philpott.

[2] The male lectotype specimen, collected at Invercargill, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Antennae serrulate, pubescent, pale ochreous dotted with dark fuscous.

Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; whitish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with brown; plical and first discal stigmata rather large, blackish, plical rather before first discal; brown irroration forms a suffused costal patch beyond middle, and a narrow terminal fascia; cilia whitish-ochreous, with dark-grey subbasal line.

[3][6] It is known from the North and South Island and has been observed at its type locality of Invercargill as well as in Dunedin, Wyndham, Banks Peninsular and in the area around the Homer Tunnel.