Shell large, 75-100 mm. (3-4 inches) in height, elongate-fusiform with rounded whorls, a tall spire and a long straight unnotched anterior canal. Whorls encircled with rounded sharply raised spiral cords which are delicately beaded by a dense pattern of axial growth threads. Spire three fifths to four fifths height of aperture plus canal. Whorls 9,5-10, plus a small smooth globular protoconch of 1,5-2 whorls, with an asymmetric nucleus, followed by 3/4 of a whorl of closely spaced brephic axials. Post-nuclear whorls sculptured firstly with two closely spaced subsutural spiral cords followed by a rather wide but shallowly concave shoulder area to a series of four primary spiral cords, the second of which from above forms a subangle at a little above middle whorl height. Primary spiral cords continue over the base but become weaker over the neck and anterior canal. From one to three or more subsidiary spiral threads in the interspaces and all spirals delicately beaded by a dense pattern of axial threads. Sinus deep and rather narrow, with its lower edge parallel to the suture and produced far forward, confluent with the swinging protractive arc of the thin outer lip. Operculum leaf-shaped with a terminal nucleus. Colour pale orange-buff with the primary spirals orange-brown.