Small Marbled

The wingspan is 14–18 mm. Forewing pale ochreous, tinged with yellowish; the median shade preceded by brown suffusion, inwardly diffuse, outwardly concise, sinuous, projecting on each fold and edged with white ; outer line brown, somewhat quadrately projecting between 6 and 4, edged with pale, and followed by a brown cloud running into apex: a black dot on discocellular; submarginal line pale, hardly marked, containing a black speck below apex ; hindwing brownish grey, whiter towards base; — the ab. rubefacta Mab, from Corsica and Sicily, shows the basal and terminal areas of forewing dark brown tinged With rosy; the brown median shade and its pale edging very prominent; the hindwing dark; — in typical specimens the space between median and outer lines remains pale ochreous or brownish. Adults are on wing from March to November.