Shell slender, yellowish white, thirteen-whorled; nucleus minute, glassy, set on edge, having about two turbinate whorls; spire with the suture distinct, marked by a plain or slightly undulate thread behind it; behind this is a strong nodulated spiral, with round nodules, then a little interval and two more, slightly smaller, similar nodulous spirals, adjacent to each other and to the suture behind them; the last whorl would show about thirty-four nodules in its circuit; transverse sculpture of elevated ridges, visible in the interspaces following the line of the nodules across the whorl; on the rounded base they appear as strong radii; base with one strong cord, with a deep sulcus outside of it, and the space between it and the pillar somewhat excavated; aperture ovate; pillar straight, forming almost a right-angle with the lip in front of it; outer lip with three strong internal line; body with the basal cord projecting, slightly covered with enamel; outer lip swollen, varicose, and whiter than the rest of the shell, its margin undulated by the external sculpture; callus joining the pillar and outer lips distinct and continuous. Maximum longitude of shell, 10.75; of last whorl, 3; maximum latitude of shell, 3mm.

This is an extremely elegant shell, in which the relative strength of the, transverse and the spiral sculpture varies somewhat in different individuals. The sides of the spire are straight, but the whorls are distinctly marked.