Shell small, stout, solid, yellowish white, polished, with rather short and acute spire and about seven whorls; the nepionic whorls (missing) are followed by five subsequent whorls, at first smooth, then axially ribbed, and finally reticulated by spiral sulci; on the antepenultimate whorl the ribbing is close and feeble, on the penultimate clear-cut, slightly flexuous, with a presutural sulcus; on the last whorl the ribbing extends nearly to the canal, with two presutural grooves, and in front of them a space without spirals, then that part of the shell which would be covered by the advancing whorl is evenly, regularly, sharply grooved to the anterior end of the canal; the ribs are slightly flexuous and feebly nodular at the suture and are separated on the last whorl by gradually widening interspaces; the outer and pillar lips are both thickened and lirate within. Length, 6.5; maximum lat., 3.5 mm.