Shell rather large, 24 - 40 mm., thin and fragile, pale yellowish, ovate-fusiform, with a tall attenuated spire of tabulated whorls and a large rotund, weakly angulated, capacious body-whorl, much constricted over the neck, and terminated in a very short unnotched anterior canal. Aperture broadly ovate. Outer lip thin with a broadly arcuate shallow sinus, occupying most of the shoulder slope. Adult sculpture of numerous weak spiral lirations and even less conspicuous thin axials. The inner lip is smooth calIused, apparently without plications. Range — off the Azores and Morocco in 1200 to 4000 metres.