The shell is moderately small for the genus (maximum length 55 mm) and clubshaped. The spire is moderately high, consisting of two and one-half polished nuclear whorls, the last of which has a subperipheral carina, and seven convex postnuclear whorls. The suture is impressed. The body whorl is moderately small and subglobular. The aperture is ovate, with a weak anal sulcus, this bounded parietally by a weak transverse ridec. The outer apertural lip is erect, with a finely crenulate margin and a lirate inner surface. The columellar lip is weakly erect above, detached and strongly erect below. The siphonal canal is long and narrowly open.
The body whorl bears three elevated, generally nonspinose ridges, these sulcate on their trailing edges. Intervarical axial sculpture consists of three or four costac extending from the suture to the base of the body. Spiral sculpture consists of numerous equidistant primary cords. The intersections of these cords with the costae and the varices are marked by small nodes. Occasionally, a short shoulder spine and/or one or two small body-base spines are developed on the varix.
Shell color is gray-white, encircled by purple-brown bands, a dark one at the shoulder margin, one medial, and one basal. The aperture is porcelaneous white.

Western Australia (Port Hedland and Broome) to Rabaul, New Britain.