Adults of this species are day flying and inhabit sheltered scrub or grassy areas and forest clearings.

[6] The male holotype, collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley, is held in the Natural History Museum, London.

Fore-wings somewhat dilated, hind-margin rather strongly sinuate beneath apex; dark fuscous; two conspicuous clear white semilunate spots on inner margin, reaching half across wing, first near base, second slightly beyond middle, both outwardly oblique, their apices curved towards apex of wing; six slender oblique white streaks from costa; first at 1⁄4; second hardly before middle, not reaching half across wing; third uniting with a similar streak from anal angle to form an outwardly curved transverse fascia; fourth short; fifth and sixth small, wedge-shaped, close before apex; some irregular silvery-white scales above anal angle beyond the transverse fascia; cilia grey (?

), basal half separated by a black line and clothed with dark fuscous scales, except on a wedge-shaped black-margined indentation a little below apex, containing a whitish spot.

Palpi moderately tufted beneath, ochreous-white with 4 obscure fuscous rings.

Forewings elongate, moderately dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen oblique; dark greyish-fuscous, purplish tinted and more or less sprinkled with white posteriorly; a narrow, outwardly oblique, white streak from costa at 1⁄4, reaching to near middle of wing; 5 similar streaks between this and apex, the last two less oblique; a broad white blotch on dorsum near base and a similar one before middle, sometimes uniting at apex; an obscure white streak from tornus, sometimes uniting with third costal streak : cilia fuscous-grey with median line and apical hook darker.

[9] The species prefers sheltered shrub or grassy areas and forest clearings.