Shell small, fusiform, reticulately sculptured; nucleus smooth, planorboid, of one and one-half whorls; aperture long, narrow, about one-half length of shell; anal notch abrupt, shallow, with no subsutural callous pad; columella two-plaited; outer lip lirate within; type species Arielia mitriformis.
As much as one dislikes adding another genus to the already overcrowded turrid nomenclature, the type species did not seem to fit into any of the recognized genera.