Shell conic-globose, umbilicate, maculate with white on a ground of reddish carmine ; whorls 5, convex, spirally traversed by five very finely granulose line, the first two small, third larger, fourth small, fifth larger than the others; suture profoundly impressed, canaliculate, last whorl with 8 line on the base encircling the umbilicus; columella unequally bidentate, the basal tooth larger, compressed; lip at base obsoletely denticulate, elsewhere edentulous; aperture oblique, less ringent than most species of Clanculus, fauces sulcate, nacreous; umbilicus white, in young shells smooth, in adults obsoletely crenulated. Alt. 6-6,5, diam. 6,5 mm. New Caledonia. A variety is olivaceous green, maculate with white, the apex rosy. It is a small species, with very prominent, compressed basal tooth, and slight crenulations at the margin of the umbilicus, the right lip not dentate.