Gymnobathra aurata

Philpott described the species as follows:

♂ ♀. 10–12 mm. Head, palpi and thorax purplish brown mixed with grey. Antennae fuscous, pubescent. Abdomen grey. Legs fuscous, posterior pair whitish grey, tarsi very obscurely annulated with paler. Forewings with costa slightly arched, apex broadly rounded, termen oblique; fuscous grey; some dark fuscous suffusion beneath costa at base; a large blotch of yellow beneath fold at base; a dark fuscous fascia with some admixture of yellow above fold from costa at ¼, slightly curved and not quite reaching dorsum with its extremity resting on a fairly large dorsal patch of yellow; an outwardly oblique dark fuscous fascia mixed with yellow from costa at ½ coalescing above tornus with a similar but inwardly oblique fascia from costa at ¾; a very obscure terminal fascia of the same colours; fringes fuscous grey sprinkled with dark fuscous and white. Hindwings and fringes fuscous grey.