Length, 15 mm ; diameter, 6 mm.

Shell: high-spired, truncate anteriorly; with broad, blunt axial ribs; white spirally banded with a brown thread. Spire: protoconch not known; teleoconch of fine barely convex whorls; shoulder slope descending broadly, Slightly concave; suture shallow, wide. Sculpture: surface smooth and glossy; axial sculpture of strong, blunt axial ribs, about eight on the last whorl. Aperture: broadly ovate, about one-quarter the length of the spire; outer lip thin at the edge, thickened behind by an axial rib; siphonal canal short, straight. Color: white, broadly banded with brown and with a narrow brown spirai on the periphery of the last whorl.

Indopacific and central Pacific. Hawaii. C. laeta was described from the "China Seas."
Shells are uncommon in beach drift.