Shell up to nearly 4 mm, slightly cyrtoconoid, solid, with about 2 protoconch whorls and 7 teleoconch whorls. Protoconch narrow and styliform, easily broken off, the first whorl rounded with a frosted surface, the following with two well-defined keels appearing progressively and running along the middle part of the whorl, more or less connecting to the start of the beaded cords on the first teleoconch whorl. Limit protoconch-teleoconch not very distinct. Sculpture of teleoconch composed by two spiral cords, approximately as broad as the intervening space, crossed by axial ribs which form very distinct beads at their intersection with the cords. On the first teleoconch whorl, the abapical cord is markedly more prominent than the other one and overhangs the suture of the following whorl. On the last two whorls, the adapical cord progressively takes over as slightly thicker. On the last whorl, this cord tends to split and form two contiguous rows of beads. The abapical part of the body whorl bears one well defined, smooth cord in prolongation of the suture and the intervening space between this and the siphonal canal is smoothish and excavated, with a weak spiral swell which is too poorly defined to be taken as a cord. Aperture oval, with a broad and short siphonal canal and a smaller channel at the opposite end. Adult shells have a rounded, but not thickened edge to the outer lip. Colour pale brown, with the beads on the spiral cords lighter, the intervening spaces between beads on the cords and the smooth cord on the base darker. Animal unknown.

Although represented by only one adult specimen and a juvenile, this species is so strikingly different from the other two sympatric species of Dizoniopsis that we venture its description as new. The shell is stouter than D. concatenata and D. aspicienda, but the most noteworthy character is the configuration of the base with one smooth cord in prolongation of the suture (distinctly beaded in the other two species) and an excavated surface between this and the suture (furnished with a distinct cord in the other two species); this character is held as significant since the holotype is a completely adult individual with a well-formed aperture. The colour pattern is also different, and reminiscent of D. coppolae with lighter beads contrasting on cords which are darker than the intervening spaces; however the latter differs in having three cords on the base and a very different protoconch, with axial ribs.