Shell very small, subulate, thin and fragile. Sculpture consisting of 3 cinguli on the upper whorls, 4 on the body-whorl, the uppermost close to the suture and slightly lower ; crossed by straight equidistant axial riblets, about 20 on the last whorl, interstices with microscopic fine growth-lines; points of intersection ornamented with round gemmules. Colour yellowish-white. Spire high, conical, much higher than the aperture ; outlines almost straight. Protoconch papillate, of 2 convex smooth whorls, a little deviated from the vertical axis. Whorls about 7, regularly increasing, flatly convex; base smooth and slightly concave. Suture impressed, channelled by the cinguli. Aperture ovate, vertical, angled above, produced below into a short, widely open, and basally emarginate canal. Outer lip sinuated by the spiral sculpture. Basal lip produced beyond the canal. Columella short, rounded, gently curved off toward the short margin of the canal; parietal wall concave. Operculum unknown.
Diameter, 1 mm. ; height, 3,2 mm.
Hab.—Snares, in 50 fathoms (Captain Bollons).