Shell of medium size, with a slender, turrited spire, dingy white; nuclear and probably the first 1 or 2 postnuclear whorls lost; remaining whorls 10, narrowly tabulated, with deep sutures, regularly increasing in size, the upper whorls with the sculpture much worn; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl 20) retractive, strongly reflected ribs, continuous from suture to suture, of which every fourth, fifth or sixth is swollen to form a strong varix; spiral sculpture of 7 cords in the interspaces between the axial ribs and numerous fine striae; the reflected faces of the varices with close, waved, axial striae, that of the intermediate axial ribs below the slightly coronated shoulder with 5 or more sharp, waved, axial laminae, the points of which correspond to the spiral cords, and in some cases span the interspaces between the axial ribs; base with a strong spiral cord forming a narrow basal disk, the axial ribs expanded on the cord but become narrow where they fuse with the inner lip; aperture circular, the outer and basal lip thickened by the last varix. The type measures: length, 37.5 mm.; maximum diameter, including the varices. 13.8 mm.