The larvae of this moth eat the seeds of endemic Myrsine species.

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1897 using material collected at Riccarton Bush in Christchurch during March.

[2][3] George Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.

[4] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Forewings very narrow, ochreous, mixed with white and sprinkled with dark fuscous, almost wholly suffused with white on anterior half and sometimes throughout; a raised black dot on fold at 1⁄6, a larger one beneath fold at 1⁄3, a third in disc before middle, a fourth beneath fold obliquely beyond third, almost dorsal, and two transversely placed close together or confluent above tornus; sometimes a blackish costal dot beyond middle; a black apical dot, and another obliquely above and before it : cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex sprinkled with black.