Shell conical, perforate, brown, periphery rounded. Sculpture consisting simply of numerous fine oblique growth-lines. Colour reddish-brown, with a narrow spiral pale band below the periphery. Spire acutely conical, much higher than the aperture. Whorls 6,5 , rather flattened, the last subangled at the periphery ; base convex. Suture impressed. Aperture oblique, roundly ovate. Peristoma sharp, regularly rounded. Columella subvertical, arcuate. Perforation narrow, but open. Operculum horny, thin, transparent, of about 5 gradually enlarging whorls ; nucleus subcentral. Diameter, 2 mm. ; height, 3,25 mm. Dentition resembling that of L. pannosum (Hutton). Type in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.
New Zealand: Greymouth (R. Helms).