The shell is moderately large for the genus (maximum length 24 mm) and roughly fusiform. The spire is high, consisting of one and one-half convex, translucent nuclear whorls and five convex postnuclear whorls. The suture is impressed where it is not covered by buttresslike expansions of the varices. The body whorl is moderately large and fusoid. The aperture is moderately large and ovate, with a broad, very shallow anal sulcus. The outer apertural lip is barely, if at all, erect; the inner surface of the outer lip bears ten spirally elongate, weak denticles. The columellar lip is smooth and entirely adherent The siphonal canal is of moderate length, narrowly open, and strongly dorsallv recurved.
The body whorl bears three heavy, ropelike varices, with a weaker intervarical costa between each two varices. Spiral sculpture consists of five strong cords on the body, three somewhat weaker ones on the upper canal, and four threads on the lower canal. All spiral elements are strongest before and on each varix but arc not much weaker intervarically.
The shell is a translucent milk-white, covered with a thick, flat-white, microscopically reticulate or cancellate intritacalx. The aperture is porcelaneous white.

Caribic. Miami and St. Petersburg, Florida, to Cyril's Bay. Trinidad.