It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1898 and is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria and New South Wales.
The forewings are fuscous, irrorated with whitish, reddish-fuscous, and blackish scales and with an obscure outwardly curved transverse blackish line from the costa at one-third, not reaching the inner-margin.
There is an ill-defined blackish spot in the costal portion of the disc beyond the middle.
The hindwings are pale-yellow, with a broad fuscous line along the hind and inner-margins.
This article on a moth of the subfamily Hypertrophinae is a stub.