Shell small, white, flaked with large patches of brown, sprinkled irregularly with blotches of carmine. Nuclear whorls two and one-half, well rounded, smooth. Postnuclear whorls strongly rounded, marked with five strong, equal, spiral keels between the sutures, of which the first is at the summit, while the last forms the peripheral keel. The spaces between the spiral keels are a little wider than the keels. In addition to the spiral sculpture the whorls are marked by very numerous, decidedly retractive, axial threads. Sutures strongly impressed. Base moderately long, well rounded, strongly, openly umbilicated, marked by nine, equal and equally spaced, depressed spiral cords, which are almost double the width of the spaces that separate them. In addition to these spiral cords the base is marked by the continuations of the axial threads. Inside of umbilicus smooth. Aperture subcircular, oblique; outer lip rendered decidedly sinuous at the edge by the external sculpture; inner lip strongly curved and slightly reflected.
The type, Cat. No. 187112, U.S.N.M., comes from Port Alfred (Coll. No. 658). It has three postnuclear whorls, and measures: Altitude, 4.5 mm.; greater diameter, 5.5 mm.