Shell turreted, subperforate, rather solid. Sculpture formed by rather distant axial folds. Colour brown with a chestnut-brown band upon the base, or yellowish with lighter or darker zigzag lines, or horny with broad whitish bands. Epidermis rather thin, the axial folds easily worn off, scarcely shining. Spire turreted, twice the height of the aperture. Protoconch small, papillate, of 2 smooth and convex whorls. Whorls 6,5, slightly convex, the last distinctly angled below the middle ; base flatly convex, with a low keel round the umbilicus. Suture moderately deep, subplicate. Aperture somewhat oblique, ovate. Peristome double, the inner continuous, very little expanded, slightly angled above ; the outer almost interrupted above, dilated, bell-shaped, incurved. Umbilicus very narrow, sometimes partly hidden by the peristome. Operculum typical. Diameter, 4 mm. ; height, 7,5-8 mm.
Range : New Zealand: Auckland, type (Greenwood) ; Hunua Range ; Waiwera ; Hillyer's Creek, near Auckland ; Tuakau ; Waiheke Island ; Wanganui.