male
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria - Part 2, 2nd edition)

The adult moths have forewings that are dark brown with off-white markings. The hindwings are yellow with a narrow irregular dark brown margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

male, drawing by George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Amatidæ and Arctiadæ (Nolinæ, Lithosianæ) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume Supplement 1 (1914), Plate XXXI, fig. 14,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries

The species occurs in

The adult moths are very difficult to distingish from those of Halone sinuata, which have yellow forewing markings, and broad dark markings to the hindwings.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Christine Darwood, Holt, Australian Capital Territory)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 18.16, p. 437.

George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume Supplement 1 (1914), p. 588, No. 583, and also Plate 31, fig. 14.

Peter Hendry,
The Australian Arctiid Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) with emphasis on Creatonotos Gangis,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 65 (June 2012), pp. 9-11.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2, 2nd edition,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, pp. 22-23.

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