Hadriania craticulata: The shell is of moderate size for the subfamily (maximum length 36 mm) and strongly fusiform. The spire is high and acute, consisting of one and one-half moderately bulbous nuclear whorls and seven strongly angulate postnuclear whorls. The suture is deeply impressed. The body whorl is of moderate size and fusoid. The aperture is moderately long, broadly open, and subovate, with a very narrow, shallow anal sulcus. The outer apertural lip is slightly erect and marginally serrate; its inner surface is weakly lirate. The columellar lip is arcuate, smooth, and entirely adherent. The siphonal canal is moderately long, narrow, bent to the left, and dorsally recurved, and is almost entirely fused, the two margins meeting simply and fusing.
The body whorl bears nine low to moderately prominent axial ribs. Spiral sculpture consists of a series of primary and secondary cords, two on the shoulder, the stronger one at the shoulder margin, a major space with a secondary cord, five primaries on the body, these alternating with secondaries, and nine or more secondaries on the canal. Five axial lamellae impart a densely scabrous texture to the cords.
Shell color is off-white to fleshy yellow-pink; the tips of all canals, the current one as well as the former ones retained on the left side of the siphonal canal, are suffused with purple-brown.

Hadriania craticulata: Throughout the Mediterranean, especially in the western half.