Shell white, more or less discolored by ferruginous red (probably ad-ventitious) with five and a half rounded whorls, a subglobular smooth nucleus forming one and a half of these; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl 6 or 7, on the last whorl about 14) coarse rather irregu¬lar cords with narrower channeled interspaces, the cords more or less nodulated by incremental lines and on the spire by obscure ribbing; suture distinct, aperture narrow, simple; pillar white, erased, canal short, straight-Height of shell, 15; of last whorl, 10; diameter, 7 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 223908. Type locality, Arctic Ocean north of Bering Sea. RANGE. Known only from type locality.