The main characteristics of this species are:
♦ height up to about 20.0 mm, width up to about 14.5 mm;
♦ protoconch nearly flat, at the same level as the first teleoconch whorl;
♦ teleoconch up to 7.5 almost straight whorls;
♦ first whorl with poorly distinct, low axial ribs, P1, P2, P3 appearing at end of whorl, granular; P4 covered by suture; on next whorls, P3 the strongest with horizontally elongated beads, P1 almost as string as P3 with axially elongated beads, P2 the weakest; axial ribs connecting beads of cords, more or less orthocline on first whorl, clearly prosocline on the last whorls; suture strongly channelled; P4 peripheral on last whorl, thin, at the beginning of the base; P3 making keel;
♦ angular periphery without keel;
♦ moderately convex base with 5-6 spiral cords, distance between smaller then cords; rather thick, close axial threads between them;
♦ one median, poorly prominent columellar tooth with a second abapical tooth below;
♦ outer lip thin, thicker internally, with up to 11 spiral lirae running inside, never reaching aperture rim;
♦ no umbilicus (covered by columellar callus);
♦ off white to pale beige.

Distribution. Philippines, 50-200 m (using also data of Poppe et al, 2006); Indonesia, 32-90 m (using data of Schepman, 1908); Vietnam (fide Poppe et al., 2006).