Shell, small, short, stout, white, with an inflated blunt nucleus of a whorl and a half and about three subsequent whorls; suture dis¬tinct, not appressed; spiral sculpture of fine close equal even and evenly distributed threads covering the whole shell; axial sculpture of a few irregularly distributed obscure ridges most obvious on the spire, and very fine close well-marked incremental lines; aperture narrow, outer lip varicose with five or six denticles within, body with a thick coat of enamel, pillar short, canal very short, but recurved. Length of shell, 6; of aperture, 3; diameter, 3 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 108326. Off Georgia and Fernandina, nine specimens.
The prominent characteristic of the typical shell is the way the rotundity of the whorls is suppressed so as to indicate a smooth spindle shape for the whole shell.
A variety ? (333458) from the same station is more slender, and has the upper whorls nearly smooth and the threads on the last whorl coarser and the varix less prominent.