The shell is of moderate size (maximum length 23 mm) and fusiform. The spire is high, consisting of one and one-half nuclear whorls and five or six convex to barely shouldered postnuclear whorls. The suture is strongly impressed. The body whorl is of moderate size and fusoid. The aperture is moderately large and ovate, with a small anal sulcus that is angled in the direction of growth. The outer apcrtural lip is thin and minutely crenulate, reflecting the spiral sculptural elements at the lip-edge. The columellar lip is entirely adherent, over a sinuous columella. The siphonal canal is long, open, and strongly sinuous. The body whorl bears 13 closely spaced axial ridges (Pvarices), these crossed by 19 deeply incised and erratically spaced spiral lines, 15 on the shoulder and body and four on the canal.The shell is flesh-colored to yellowish- or brownish-white. Orange Bay (type locality, Tierra del Fuego) to Peru.