Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol. 10: A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, Their Preparatory States, Habits, and Localities; Heterocera, Pyralidina-Tortricina
Underside of the fore wings shining dark smoke-colour with a white costal spot before the apex. Hind wings equally shining, slightly paler. Body dark brown.
Variable in size, and also in the extent of white clouding and dusting.
On the wing from the end of May till the beginning of August.
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