Shell thin, white, with a film of yellowish huff epidermis. Spire tall, 1,4times height of aperture; base concave, strongly contracted; pillar flexuous. Whorls seven, including a relatively large concave protoconch of about 2,5 whorls, with a tall, straight-sided spiral rim, as described above. The first whorl of the protoconch is smooth, but the second develops closely spaced, weak, flattened spiral cords, and the carinate edge rapidly resolves into one of these spirals as the coiling becomes normal with steep straight-sided whorls. First post-nuclear whorl with ten flattened linear spaced spiral cords, penultimate with sixteen, and body whorl, including base, with thirty-eight. Aperture obliquely pyriform; outer lip thin, straight in profile and obliquely retractive to the axis. Parietal wall deeply excavated. Pillar flexuous and strongly recurved, but the end is broken in the only near adult specimen, so the length of the anterior canal is not known. It cannot be very long, however, judging by the strongly reflexed pillar. Height 36 mm. (actual), 38 mm. (estimated); diameter 18 mm.
LOCALITIE: Off South Georgia