The adult moth has metallic dark green forewings, and grey hindwings. The female has a yellow tuft on her tail. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

Listed as Procris apicalis,
lithograph by William Wood, printed by George Henry Ford & William West, for A.G. Butler,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), Plate VI, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Gerstein Library, University of Toronto.

The species has been found in:

Drawing by Embrik Strand,
Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 1, fig i6,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

Further Reading:

Arthur Gardiner Butler,
ZYGÆNIDÆ,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), p.14,, and Plate VI, fig. 2.

Embrik Strand,
Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag,
Volume 10, (1933), Plate 1, fig i6.

Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing 2004, pp. 38-39,42, 59, 65, 67, 70, 76, 81-84, 111-112, 120, 128, pls. 9, 10, 58, 59, 60, 64.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1854), p. 111, No. 14.

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