The shell is moderately large (maximum length 110 mm) and spindle-shaped. The spire is high, consisting of two and one-half polished, convex nuclear whorls and seven convex postnuclear whorls. The suture is impressed. The body whorl is moderate in size. The aperture is moderately large and ovate, with a small, transversely elongate tubercle delimiting its parietal margin. The outer apcrtural lip is erect and finely crenulate at its margin; its inner surface is lirate. The columellar lip is adherent above, detached and erect below; at its free edge, reflecting the underlying spiral sculpture, is a thin, wrinkled parietal callus. The siphonal canal is long, narrowly open, and distally recurved.
The body whorl bears three moderate, rounded varices, these sulcate on their trailing edges. Intervarical axial sculpture consists of four or five weak costae. Spiral sculpture consists of numerous low cords, these intercalated with finer threads. Where the shoulder margin cord and four lower body cords intersect the varix, short, barely open, spurlike spines are developed. Between these spines, tiny, ventrally bent spinelets are evident. On the upper canal are two or three short spines.
Shell color is light to medium rust-brown, darker on the upper part of each whorl. The aperture is white.

Known at present only from the area around Tayabas Bay, Quezon, and Marinduque Islands, in the Philippines, in depths of approximately 150-200 m.