Shell small and subcylindrical. Colour blackish brown, the apex and bands on the lip buff. Whorls seven, the upper short, well rounded, the last flatter, half the length of the shell. Sculpture: Riblets are set at the rate of about eighteen to a whorl, more than the breadth of each apart, incurved at the suture, those above more prominent, on the last whorl decreasing in height, and gradually vanishing on the base ; both riblets and intercostal spaces are closely encircled by alternately larger and smaller threads, which are in turn grained by finer radial lines. Aperture narrow; well developed external varix, slightly incised by posterior notch ; within the outer lip are a few small denticules, and on the inner lip fourteen short entering ridges. Length 9 mm., breadth 3.5 mm.

This species is a relation of E. cylindrica from which it is distinguished by dentition, colour, coarser sculpture, and blunter extremities.

Australia. Queensland.