Shell slender, acute, pale brownish, with a smooth regularly increasing nucleus of two and a half whorls and eight and a half subsequent whorls: suture closely appressed with a cord-like edge behind the strongly constricted, arcuately striated anal fasciole; spiral sculpture of (on she penultimate whorl about seven) flattish, close-set cords; in some specimens these alternate in size, in others they are nearly equal: on the last whorl there are about 25, some irregularly larger than the others, and a few smaller threads on the canal: axial sculpture of (on the last whorl 10 to 14) rounded ribs with subequal interspaces, more conspicuous and less numerous as we ascend the spire, over which the spiral sculpture passes without nodulation: aperture short, subovate, anal sulcus short rounded, with a subsutural callus; outer lip arcuate, thin, smooth inside, without any marked varix behind it: inner lip and pillar with a smooth callus; canal short, slightly recurved. Height of shell, 16; of last whorl. 8.5; diameter 5,5 mm.
Range: Station 2823, off Lower California in 27 fathoms, sand.