The larvae feed on various grasses, including Gramineae, Aeluropus (in the Sinai Desert) and Aerulopus and Panicum species.

Dark brown, base smoky black; inner margin of the hindwing paler than the ground colour, and a few white dots on the forewing in the female.

Underside pale brown, with some obscure white spots towards the tip of the forewing, and in the female at the hind-margin of the hindwing also.

It inhabits South Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia in August, and is found in dry places.

(Kirby)Recorded from Campbellpore, Kala Pani and Hurripur, N.-W. India,(Butler).