[2][1] Meyrick used a specimen collected by George Hudson in the forest at Ben Lomond, Lake Wakatipu in January.

[2][3] Hudson discussed and illustrated the species in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.

Abdomen grey, segmental margins whitish, anal tuft ochreous-whitish.

Forewings elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique; grey suffusedly irrorated with white, tinged here and there with ochreous; a small grey basal patch, edge sprinkled with blackish, acutely angulated on fold; small blackish spots on costa at 1/3 and 3/5; stigmata blackish, plical beneath first discal, second discal represented by a small transverse spot from which a blackish streak runs nearly to first, a blackish dot between and above first and second discal; an obscure angulated subterminal shade of whitish suffusion; a marginal series of small blackish-grey spots round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia whitish with two grey shades.

[5] Hudson stated that this species could be found near the edges of beech forest on the mountains.