Length, 15 mm; diameter, 9 mm.

Shell: fusiform; siphonal canal short, straight; prominently noduled; ivory white tessellated with red-brown. Spire: slightly more than half the length of the shell; protoconch of four and one-half narrowly conical, red-brown whorls, the apical whorl smooth, the others with axial costae crossed by spiral threads; teleoconch of about six whorls. Sculpture: subsutural fold prominent, narrowly crested, tuberculate; shoulder slope deep; peripheral carina massive, of two almost coalescent cords with prominent axially fused nodes; last whorl with widely spaced, flat-topped cords and finer spiral threads below the peripheral carina. Aperture: sinus moderately deep, U-shaped, interior of outer lip strongly lirate. Color: ivory white tessellated with red-brown; aperture and callus of inner lip white.

Powell (1967) suggests that the shell resembles those of G. amabilis (Weinkauff, 1875) from the Red Sea.

This species is known only from the holotype, dredged at a depth of about 200 m off Waikiki, Oahu. (Hawaii).