[2] The male holotype, collected by J. H. Lewis in the Old Man Range / Kopuwai in Central Otago, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Palpi 1+1⁄2, dark fuscous, lower longitudinal half ochreous-whitish.

Forewings elongate, gradually dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique; dark fuscous, irregularly strewn except on margins with yellowish-ferruginous scales, and partially suffused with black, especially about margins of first and second lines and towards dorsum anteriorly; first and second lines represented by straight undefined series of whitish scales surrounded with yellowish-ferriiginous suffusion, strongly converging towards dorsum; a small spot of white scales in middle of disc, followed by a black spot; a well-marked black fascia beyond second line; a few white scales indicating subterminal line : cilia ochreous-whitish, with dark-fuscous basal and grey median lines.

Hindwings without hairs in cell; dark grey sprinkled with blackish; cilia ochreous-whitish, with dark-grey basal line.

[1] This species has been observed or collected in Otago at the type locality of Old Man Range as well as at Bold Peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu, in the Kakanui Mountains and at Happy Valley.