Shell large for genus (22-30 mm), stocky, broad across shoulder, tapering toward anterior end; shoulder sharply angled, edged with small raised carina; spire low, broadly subpyramidal, with slightly concave outline; spire whorls smooth; body whorl shiny and highly polished, ornamented with 6-8 large, widely-separated spiral cords around anterior end; body whorl colored uniformly bright orange, orange-tan, or occasionally deep red-orange with single wide white spiral band around mid-body; whitespiral band with 4-5 rows of small brown dots and large longitudinal brown flammules; some specimens with rows of faint brown dots overlying base color of body whorl; spire whorls white, overlaid with dense, closely-packed dark tan-brown crescent-shaped flammules; white spire color and brown flammules extend onto edge of shoulder carina, pro-ducing checkered band around shoulder; early whorls bright reddish-pink; aperture uniformly narrow; interior of aperture orange; protoconch proportionally large, projecting, mammil-late, composed of 2 large rounded whorls.

Range: At present, known only from off the coast of Ceara State, Brazil, from 30 degrees 58 minutes West, 2 degrees 17 minutes South to 39 degrees 30 minutes West, 2 degrees 33 minutes South.
Found dead in fishing traps, from rocky sea floor area in 40 m depth off Camocim, Ceara State, Brazil. Collected by Damaso Monteiro of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil.