Shell small, pointed, waxen white, with a narrow opaque yellowish band in advance of the suture, composed of about six whorls, and with a distinct umbilical perforation; nucleus eroded, small; spire with about six, or (on the last whorl) eighteen strong and very regularly and distinctly punctate grooves, the punctations at the rate (near the aperture) of about six to a millimeter, the grooves a little more crowded anteriorly and distant posteriorly, the interspaces everywhere wider than the grooves and with no intercalary grooves or striae whatever; transverse sculpture of faint lines of growth ; aperture rounded in front, pointed behind; outer lip thin, simple, arched, and continuous with the reflected thin pillar lip, upon which a fold can hardly be made out; body with a slight glaze; umbilical perforation straight, with smooth walls, apparently very deep, and about 0,25 mm. in diameter. Lon. of shell, 7.75 ; of last whorl, 6.0 ; of aperture, 4.0. Max. lat. of shell, 4.62 ; of aperture, 2.0 mm.
The anterior part of the last whorl being a little larger than any part pos¬terior to it, this shell has a somewhat pyriform appearance.

Type Locality: Blake sta. 2, north of Havana
Range: 23.23°N to 13.75°N; 87.62°W to 61.08°W
Depth: 339 to 1472 m
Maximum Reported Size: 14 mm
Distribution: Mexico: Quintana Roo; Cuba: North Havana Province; St. Lucia