Shell lengthened, but variable in degree of elongation ; subcarinated or almost rounded at the periphery; whorls 6,5 to 7,5. Ground color yellowish, becoming tawny below, paler above, the earlier two or three whorls brown, covered with a cream-white hydrophanous cuticle, which is cut by zigzag stripes or by spots of the ground color. Lip dark brown.
Alt. 42, diam. 22 ; aperture, alt. 22 mill.
There are often dark bands upon the light ground color, at suture, periphery and columella, but these are as frequently lacking.
This form is so intimately related to C. camelopardalis that I can only admit it to the rank of a local variety, characterized by the color pattern only.