Shell small, stout, white, with a large smooth polished nucleus of a whorl and a half, and about four subsequent whorls; suture deep, not appressed, whorls very rotund; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl about a dozen) strong narrow rounded ribs with wider interspaces, crossing the whorls; spiral sculpture of numerous equal and equally distributed fine threads with narrower interspaces, not swollen where they pass over the ribs, and visible over the whole shell; last whorl much the largest; aperture rather short and wide, a glaze on the body, the outer lip simple, not internally lirate and mostly sharp-edged; pillar with a coat of enamel in adults, short, smooth; canal short, slightly recurved. Length of shell, 4.5; of last whorl, 2.5; diameter, 2.4 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 108322.
Off Georgia, very abundant.