[2][1][3][4] This skipper is found in Southern India (Kerala, Karnataka Tamilnadu and south-western Andhra Pradesh).

Upperside dark brown, basal area olive-brown.

Male: Forewing with two small oval semi-diaphanous white spots at the end of the cell, three spots obliquely before the apex, and three on the disk; hindwing without makings ; cilia brownish-cinereous.

Under side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area of hindwing: forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot above hind margin: hindwing with two discal white spots.

Underside: forewing as above: hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of the cell.Habitat: Canara (Ward) The larva (caterpillar) has been recorded on Bambusa bambos, Bambusa vulgaris and Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha.