The adults are brown with a diagonal pale line outlined in dark brown running across each wing. Also each forewing has a dumbell shaped mark and a small white dot. The wings all have scalloped margins.

Female
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

Male
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

These specimens were all taken in New South Wales.

The eggs are white and laid singly on the edge of the underside of leaves of a foodplant.

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