PEASE'S DESCRIPTION : " Shell oval umbilicate, white, with two transverse red lines on body whorl, crossed by irregular longitudinal pink undulating lines, trans¬versely ribbed, crossed by fine longitudinal raised lines ; whorls four ; spire a little elevated, nucleus persistent ; aperture elongately oval ; columella obliquely trun¬cated."
HOLOTYPE : B.M.(N.H-) Reg. No. 1961201. Length, 15 mm. ; diameter, 10 mm.
REMARKS : The shell is solid, the interior of the aperture glazed, and the outer lip slightly thickened. The columella is curved, the curves emphasized by a fold extending along the apertural edge.
In the Hawaiian Islands the species is not infrequently collected on sand flats and in tidepools where it apparently lives in gravel or coarse sand.