Shell cylindric-fusiform (b/1 0,36-0,38, a/1 0,49-0,53) with a produced, rather strongly tapering base, and sharp, orthoconoid to slightly cyrtoconoid spire; teleoconch whorls about 5,5 in number; suture fairly deep, not distinctly channelled nor regularly undulating, whorl profile convex with periphery situated above midwhorl, on first few whorls forming a rounded shoulder adapically, later whorls neither shouldered nor angular; subsutural region evenly convex, without trace of ridge or bordering concavity; siphonal canal fairly short, slightly oblique, tapering and fairly broad, somewhat differentiated from aperture, termination truncate, slightly oblique, not indented; left side of base shallowly concave, fasciole weak. Aperture moderately narrow, rather straight, tapering at each end, widest slightly behind median, outer lip somewhat effuse anteriorly; columella long and rather straight, curving very gently at junction with paries; labial callus very thin, its outer margin not free on columella, smooth except for a small nodule just below posterior end of paries, and sometimes the underlying sculpture showing through; outer lip preceded by a moderately thick, varicoid rib; edge of lip sharp and somewhat incurved, usually bordered internally by a series of approximately 24 weak plicae, which do not reach lip but extend well into the interior, the posteriormost one forming a small tubercle at level of anal sinus (in opposition to parietal nodule); lip moderately convex in side-view, anal sinus subsutural, moderately shallow and very asymmetrically U-shaped, stromboid notch very shallow and wide. Sculptured by low, narrow, rather close axial ribs, not continuous from whorl to whorl, crossed by thin, low, widely-spaced spiral lirae; entire surface traversed by minute, dense collabral threads, interstices with microscopic spiral threads, forming a microcancellate sculpture (Figs 58, 59); suture bordered below by a row of microscopic, prickly granules. Axial ribs more or less equal in width to their intervals (which are gently concave), an occasional rib sometimes varicoid; crests of ribs rounded in t/s, their sides moderately sloping; orientation moderately opisthocline, sinuous, protractively curved below suture, extending from suture to suture and on body whorl continuing almost to base; 11-12 axial ribs on 1st teleoconch whorl, 17-21 on penultimate one. Spiral lirae rounded, much narrower than their intervals, which often bear a narrower intermediary lira, lirae finer and closer below suture; tops of lirae finely pliculated by collabral threads; 7-9 spirals on 1st whorl, penultimate whorl with 9-12, base of body whorl with approximately 19-21 lirae. Interstitial spiral threads close, median one usually sliehtlv stronger than others. Ground colour pale buff, with an orange-brown band below suture, aperture white. Protoconch conical, of about 3,7 strongly convex whorls, first one small and tilted; initially smooth, axially ribbed from 2nd whorl, 21-22 thin, arcuate, opisthocline ribs on last whorl; crests of ribs transversely ridged under SEM, base of ribs terminating a short distance above suture, the latter area occupied by a series of short, straight, prosocline riblets; breadth 0,70 mm, height 0,65-0,70 mm (b/h 1,00-1,07). Dimensions: 13,4 x 4,8 mm.

Philippines and northern Australia to northern Zululand.