Shell small, ovate, solid, slightly turriculate, with blunt axial ribs and spiral lirae, maculated with brown and white below the shoulder. Sculpture consisting of rather distant low rounded axial costae, 9 to 10 on the body-whorl, extending on the spire-whorls from the angle to the suture below, but only over the periphery on the body-whorl; they are crossed by subequal flat spiral lirae, fine on the shoulder, broad upon the base, separated by linear interstices. Colour : The protoconch is flavescent, the other spire-whorls yellowish or brownish-white, maculated with brown and white below the shoulder ; the ribs usually white, the interstices brown ; body-whorl light brown below the maculations on the periphery ; aperture fulvous inside. Spire conic, turriculate, very little higher than the aperture. Protoconch papillate, of 2 smooth convex whorls. Whorls 6, the last high in proportion, with a sloping broad and lightly excavated shoulder, slightly convex below the inconspicuous angle; body-whorl convex, but faintly contracted at the base. Suture distinct, but little impressed. Aperture lightly oblique, elongately oval, angled above, with a rudimentary broad and truncated canal below. Outer lip convex, rather thin and sharp, smooth inside, with a very slight broad sinus below the suture. Columella vertical, excavated toward the parietal wall, slightly turned to the left below. Inner lip narrow, thin, spreading over the convex parietal wall, tapering to a fine point below, and extending to the base of the canal. Operculum very small, length 2.1 mm., oval, the nucleus apical.
Diameter, 4.8 mm. ; height, 10 mm.

New Zealand.