Shell small for the genus, slender, acute, pale chestnut brown with a smooth periostracum, and five and a half whorls exclusive of the nucleus which is blunt and includes a whorl and a half: suture well defined, not appressed, whorls moderately rounded: axial sculpture only of faint incremental lines; spiral sculpture of obscure striae, about three to a millimeter, with wider flattish interspaces over the whole surface; aperture narrow, outer lip thin, sharp; body erased; pillar slightly concavely arcuate, attenuated in front, the axis pervious: canal hardly differentiated from the aperture; height of shell. 41; of last whorl, 27; diameter, 14 mm. TL S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 110770.
Dredged in Aniwa Bay. Sakhalin Island, by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, at station 5009, in 25 fathoms, mud, bottom temperature 38.5° F.
The operculum has a slightly coiled nucleus approaching that of Mohnia, but the habit of the shell is that of the elongate Volutopsius.