Shell elongate-conic, flesh colored. Nuclear whorls decollated, excepting a very small portion of the last turn, which is smooth. Postnuclear turns marked by three lamellar, spiral keels, which are very feebly tuberculated. Of these keels the first is at the summit and the last about as far above the suture as it is from the median, which is half way between the other two. These spiral lamellae are truncated abruptly anteriorly and posteriorly and are somewhat flattened at the summit and are about as wide as the spaces that separate them. In addition to the spiral lamellae, the whorls are marked by numerous, feeble, slightly retractive axial ribs, which are host developed in the grooves between the spiral lamellae, passing up on the sides of these and rendering them weakly nodulous on the two sides. Of these ribs, about 20 occur upon the first to third, 22 upon the fourth to sixth, 24 upon the seventh, 20 upon the eighth, 28 upon the ninth to eleventh and 30 upon the penultimate turn. The spaces inclosed between the spiral lamellae and the axial riblets are squarish, weakly impressed pits. Periphery of the last whorl marked by a spiral cord a little weaker than the lamellae on the spire and separated from the supra-peripheral cord by a sulcus about as wide as those on the spire, which is crossed by the feeble continuations of the axial riblets. Base provided with another spiral cord which is half way between the peripheral cord and the insertion of the columella. Aperture very strongly twisted and channeled anteriorly, slightly less so posteriori}'; outer lip patulous, thin, showing the external sculpture within; columella very much twisted and curved, covered with a thick callus which also extends over the parietal wall and renders the peritreme complete.
Cat. No. 249682, U.S.N.M., contains the type and another specimen, both from Port Alfred (Coll. No. 954). The type has 13 whorls, and measures: Length, 8.8 mm.; diameter, 2.1 mm.