Shell small, dull white, fusiform, with a large smooth white nucleus of a whorl and a half and three and a half subsequent whorls; suture distinct, whorls moderately rounded, sometimes with a shoulder in front of the suture; axial sculpture of a variable number of rounded strong ribs (14 to 21 on the last whorl) with interspaces wider or narrower in conformity with the number of ribs, extending over the whorls but obsolete near the canal; spiral sculpture of fine threads, three or four on the penultimate and 10 or more on the last whorl, with wider interspaces, overrunning but not nodulating the ribs; aperture semilunate, narrow, outer lip thin, smooth within, the body smooth, the pillar straight, with two rather strong oblique plaits; canal produced, axis minutely pervious. Length of shell, 6; of aperture and canal, 3; diameter, 3 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107971.
Off Georgia and Fernandina, 16 specimens.