It is found in Taiwan, China (Zhejiang, Manchuria), Korea, the Russian Far East and Japan.

The forewings are bright yellow at the base and narrowly along the costa and termen, the remainder of the wing rich red-brown, chestnut-brown or pale chocolate-brown in different varieties.

The darker colour has the appearance of a large quadrate patch overflowing the wing from the dorsum, the whole of which it occupies from near the base to the tornus, its anterior margin tending obliquely outwards towards the costa and its upper and outer margins running parallel with the outline of the wing.

Throughout this patch are a great number of shining metallic steel-grey spots, having a rosy tinge in some varieties.

The hindwings vary in colour according to the tint of the darker portion of the forewings, which they closely resemble, and shading to pale cinereous at the base.