This Caterpillar feeds on dead leaves.

The adult moth has a wing span of about 3 cms. It is brown with a straight white line across the margin of each fore wing, and a curved white line along the margin of each hind wing.

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

This species can be found from India to Australia (as far south as Sydney).

Norfolk Island, 1976.

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