Shell with about nine whorls, a slender spire, small but not planorboid nucleus, and pale olive periostracum. It is pinkish white with a yellowish substratum and the periostracum is dull and without polish or villosity; lines of growth distinct, spiral sculpture of fine stria1 with wider flattish interspaces, alternately coarser on the base; suture deep, the whorl below it often obscurely puckered near the suture; canal rather short, wide, and recurved. Alt. 70.0, diam. 28.0 mm.
This elegant species has been obtained at a number of localities. The operculum is normal and rather light colored. The individuals vary somewhat in relative slenderness.

Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands in 50 to 100 fathoms;