Shell small, stout, solid, biconical. Colour russet-brown, with, a definite buff band on the shoulder covering three spirals, and a less definite buff band on the base; penultimate, antepenultimate whorls, and varix also buff. Whorls six and a half, of which two and a half compose the sharply differentiated protoconch. Sculpture: The earlier whorls of the protoconch are smooth, and the last has about twenty delicate radial riblets; the ribs on the adult shell are broad, prominent, perpendicular, and discontinuous, at first eleven, at last nine; both ribs and interstices are traversed by flat-topped elevated spirals, spaced more than their breadth apart, on the last whorl twenty-five, on the penultimate eight; the spirals are grained by the passage of fine radial striae. Aperture: A substantial varix stretches a free limb over the mouth ; beneath it are six small tubercles; on the inner lip are ten entering plaits. Length 5 mm., breadth 2 mm.

Australia. Queensland.