[1] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in the southern parts of the South Island.

[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Flat Mountain, is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Porewings with costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen almost straight, oblique; brown; markings formed chiefly by dense white irroration; a small irregular basal patch; a broad band from 1⁄5 to 1⁄2 costa and 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 dorsum, its inner edge slightly incurved and its outer margin irregular; a broad fascia from costa at 3⁄4 to tornus, constricted beneath costa and somewhat excurved; a thin subterminal line white on costa and metallic blue round termen: between second and third fasciae on lower half of wing a large black blotch enclosing two small patches of metallic blue scales: fringes brown, touched with white at tornus and with a darker basal line.

Hindwings pale purplish brown, lighter towards apex; a rather obscure white fascia from tornus reaching about half way round termen and keeping close to the margin: fringes brown, more or less white-tipped and with a darker basal line.

[3]This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in subalpine habitat in the hills and mountains of Otago, Fiordland and Southland.