Shell small, fusiformly ovate, white, spotted upon and between the ribs with pale and dark brown. Whorls 7, the apical smooth, convex; the rest subconcavely sloping above, angulated near the middle, straightish at the sides, longitudinally costate and spirally ridged. Costae moderately strong, about nine on a whorl, produced into angular prominences where crossed by the chief transverse lira ; the latter are three in number on the upper volutions, all on their lower half, and five or six on the last. In addition to these, the surface is ornamented with several finer intervening liras and very fine lines of growth. The aperture is rather open, ovate, contracted into a short, open, oblique, recurved canal, and somewhat stained with yellow. The labrum has a broad varix exteriorly, and about eight fine lira) within. The columella is arcuate above, yellowish, and bears a small tubercle or two below the middle. Length 11 millim., greatest width 6. Darros Island, Amirantes, 22 fms.; broken-coral bottom.
This species closely resembles Pascula muricata, but is smaller, has the upper part of the whorls more concave, and more numerous longitudinal costae.