Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Descriptions of Heterocerous Lepidoptera From Congo
Female. Fawn colour. Proboscis very short. Palpi very broad and short, obliquely ascending, 3rd joint very minute. Antennae serrated. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs beset with minute black spines; fore tibiae slightly dilated, excavated beneath; hind tibiae with four slender Spines. Wings with two brown postmedial Oblique indistinct zig - zag lines. Fore wings falcate, partly suffused with cinereous; an indistinct brown ringlet at the end of the areolet. Length of the body 12 lines; Of the wings 33 lines.
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