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

The adult moth has a wing span of about 4 cms. The upper wing surfaces are brown with a curved white band across the centre and a less distinct white band across the tip of each fore wing, and four yellow blotches on each hind wing.

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

Underneath, the forewings are brown with two yellow marks on the costa of each forewing, and orange under each hindwing with a dark mark at the tornus.

The specimen pictured here was taken in Queensland.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 337.

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