This species can be found on both the North and the South Islands from the Hawkes Bay down to Westland.

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1921 from specimens collected at Dun Mountain near Nelson.

[2] Adults were found on a rocky slope covered with various species of mosses and liverworts.

Forewings broadly lanceolate, apex less acute in; dark metallic violet; a band of pale lemon-yellow at base; a lemon-yellow band before 1⁄2, faintly excurved, and dilated slightly on dorsal half; a variable series of lemon-yellow dots on costa between median band and apex, and a similar series on dorsum, usually two in each case but sometimes four or five: cilia greyish-fuscous.

Hindwings dark metallic violet, fuscous basally: cilia as in forewings.