"Length range in five shells, 14-30 mm. Shell: fusiform-ovate; with flat spiral cords; cream axially blotched with red-brown. Spire: protoconch of three and one-quarter glossy, conical whorls; teleoconch of seven slightly convex whorls; suture prominent, impressed, shoulder barely angulate. Sculpture: flat spiral cords, about twenty on the last whorl, seven on the penultimate whorl; width of interspaces between spiral cords variable, the four apical grooves on last whorl about equal in diameter to the cords, the abapical grooves very narrow; interspaces with fine axial threads, the threads prominent in the wider grooves, appearing almost punctate in the narrow interspaces. Aperture: moderately wide; longer than the spire; outer lip thin, barely crenulate; columella with four oblique folds, the abapical fold nearly obsolete in all shells examined; siphonal canal recurved; siphonal notch distinct. Color: cream with axially oriented angular blotches of red-brown running from suture to base on the last whorl and restricted to just below the suture on the other whorls; in worn shells the axial blotches may be broken into discrete blocks" (original description).

Hawaiian Islands.