Shell small, fusiform, white, with an inflated, smooth white nucleus of a whorl and a half and nearly four subsequent whorls; suture distinct, rather deep, whorls well rounded; early whorls more or less distinctly ribbed with about 16 rounded ribs on the penultimate whorl, obsolete on the last whorl, with more or less obvious close incremental lines; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl 6; on the last whorl about 20) equal and equally distributed cords with usually wider interspaces in each of which runs a fine intercalary thread; this sculpture covers the whole whorl; aperture sublunate, outer lip thin, sharp, crenulate by the sculpture; body lightly erased, pillar smooth, twisted; canal short, slightly recurved; axis pervious. Length of shell, 10; of aperture and canal, 4.5; diameter, 6 mm.

Off Georgia and Fernandina, 11 specimens.