This is not a common beach shell, but is found abundantly in moderately deep water, from 5 to 20 fathoms, on sandy or muddy sand bottoms.
Localities.—Dredged in North Harbour, Port Jackson, 6 fathoms, the figured specimen 5-5 mm. in length. The shell is ivory coloured with a pale yellow band near the top of the body whorl. Specimens from 5 fathoms, Jervis Bay, alive on a pure sand bottom, are a little broader, dark grey from the animal within, and with a light coloured sub-sutural band. Also obtained from 14 fathoms off Long Reef, and from 20 to 35 fathoms off Crookhaven.