Despite being reported as "The wet-season form occurs commonly at about 3000 ft. on the southern slopes of the Nilgiris in August, and the dry-season form in December and January." in the original species description (Hampson 1889), the species has subsequently been very rarely seen or recorded in literature. Evans caught only one male in the Nilgiris, possibly in the early 1910s (BMNH butterfly collection, Kunte, personal unpublished data). Larsen (1987) noted that Wynter-Blyth failed to record it, and Larsen himself saw but only one male during his years of stay in the Nilgiris (this record needs to be verified). Based on the current evidence, the species appears to be genuinely rare. As far as currently known, after Evans's collection nearly 100 years ago, the species appears to have been seen only once by Larsen (this is a provisional record) before our sighting in Neyyar WLS, Kerala, in December 2012 (BOI media codes as912 to as917).