These moths have a shape and flight (rapid wingbeats so one sees a blurred cone on either side of the body, and a flightpath consisting of smooth slowly evolving arcs) that is very much like that of wasps. On the Delhi University campus they are common during March and April, and a few are also seen in Autumn.

Once I saw an individual walking in little loops in a moist patch of soil on the margin of a road. Its antennae were depressed and flicking the ground, and its proboscis was also inserted into the earth.

Dr. V. Shubhalaxmi of the Bombay Natural History Society writes that these moths appear to be very close to the species Amata bicincta (Kollar) and she has collected them in Mumbai.