Hypertropha chlaenota is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1887.

The forewings are rather dark shining fuscous, with coppery reflections and with a large whitish-ochreous basal patch, extending on the costa to the middle, on the inner margin to two-fifths, its outer edge nearly straight, on the costa marked with four direct cloudy blackish strigulae.

There is a small whitish-ochreous irregularly triangular spot on the inner margin before the anal angle, containing a dot of ground colour.

The space between this and the basal patch is thickly strewn with small bluish-leaden metallic spots, and there is a curved broken dentate whitish-ochreous line from four-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, preceded by an irregular series of bluish-leaden metallic spots, before which is a blackish suffusion in the disc.

The hindwings are ochreous yellow, with a moderate dark fuscous hindmarginal border.