Shell ovate: white, with a tinge of brown: with, on the penult whorl four, and on the last whorl eight, stout obtuse very prominent spiral ridges, which are decussated imbricately by very prominent regular incremental laminae: apex acute: spire with the outlines rather convex: whorls four, quite convex, with a rather deep suture; last whorl large and ventricose: aperture ovate, somewhat effuse and subacute anteriorly: labrum pectinate, rather sharp, thickened within: columella with a small transverse plait opposite the umbilicus, expanded and flattened below.
Mean divergence about 67°; length of spire .08 inch; total
length .2 inch; breadth .13 inch.