This species inhabits native forest or scrub, with the adults preferring open glades.

They are known to be on the wing from November until February and fly during daylight hours, being active on hot sunny days.

Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; dark bronzy-fuscous; a shining purple fascia from base of costa almost to dorsum at 1⁄4, followed by a spot of blackish suffusion beneath costa, beyond which is a short metallic-blue oblique strigula; a narrow shining purple fascia from a silvery-whitish dot beneath costa before middle to a pale ochreous spot on middle of dorsum; a pale blue-metallic linear mark on end of cell; triangular shining purple spots above and below middle beyond this, their anterior angles tending to meet in disc; an undefined shining purple spot before middle of termen : cilia deep purplish-bronze.

[1] The forewings are blackish bronze, with a dark metallic purple basal blotch and transverse fasciae.

[1] The termen is reflecting purple with a line of bluish white scales from the costa to below the fold.

[4] Larvae have been shown to feed on the interior of twigs of Prumnopitys ferruginea after having been reared from specimens collected in Auckland.