Diagnosis: Shell moderately small (7-18 mm), claviform, with a broad, moderately shallow anal sinus, occupying most of shoulder; stromboid notch shallow or absent; sculpture of dense spiral lirae, axial sculpture often peripheral or restricted to early whorls, no subsutural cord or parietal pad. Protoconch globose, of 1J-2 whorls, smooth except sometimes for terminal riblets. Operculum oblanceolate with terminal nucleus. Radula resembling that of Inquisitor, of relatively small marginal plates only, with a short shaft, rather poorly defined cutting edge and long, slender accessory plate. Tentacles short, with eyes on swellings occupying half their length; sperm duct opening through large retractile papilla at tip of penis.