The back is dark gray with ashy-white speckles, the belly is dark buffy brown, and the tail is dark at the base with a white distal half. HMW describes montane rain forest in southeastern Sulawesi.
The long coat has sparse, short black guard hairs. The dark-gray back is speckled with ashy white and the dark-buffy-brown belly is sharply separated from it. The tail is blackish over its basal half and white over its distal half.
the 2017 HMW account lists lower and upper montane rain forest at about 1,500 m as habitat. The only known type series comprises two adults and one juvenile collected in 1932.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.