Shell small, solid, glossy, conical, apex pointed, base contracted. Whorls five and a half, the lower narrowly but sharply tabulate. Colour cream. Sculpture, the protoconch consisting of a whorl and a half is smooth and very glossy, the next whorl is duller with incipient ribbing. On the last three whorls there are strong widely spaced perpendicular ribs, which on the penultimate number fourteen. Below the periphery they gradually vanish, above they terminate in a blunt point, the summits are linked together by an indefinite spiral cord. The anterior extremity is scored by six fine spiral grooves. Aperture oval, feebly denticulate within the outer lip, on the columellar wall a thick callus layer. Length, 5,5, breadth 2,5 mm. Three imperfect specimens.
Pyrene strix, Watson, appears to resemble this but is larger, without the denticules in the aperture and has a different apex.

Tasman Sea. Deepsea species.