The genus Capsula was renamed Globia because of a naming conflict with a mollusk.

Forewing yellowish rufous, the rufous tint predominating in the male, the yellowish in the female; veins more or less tinged with grey; a dark smudge at lower angle of cell; an outer row of dark vein-dots; hindwing grey with a dark paler-edged outer line; a rare form, ab.

nov. [Warren] has both lines complete and dentate throughout, the median vein thickly black; - in the Norfolk Fens a very dark form occurs, ab.

The larvae are greenish dotted with black; head brown; thoracic plate pale green.

The larvae bore the stems of Scirpus lacustris, Typha species and Iris pseudacorus.