Shell elongately acuminated, marbled with white and brown, encircled by rounded cinguli and axially striated in the intervals. On the posterior whorls there are four cinguli ; five on the penultimate ; five on the body-whorl posterior to the periphery, with or without a slender one interposed between the first and second from the suture ; the base with one cingulus in front of the periphery.
Dimensions.—Height, 15 mm (estimated); width, 3,25.
Localities.—Head of Great Australian Bight, Streaky and Fowler Bays, St. Vincent Gulf, Middleton, Cape Northumberland.
Affinity.—This species is more elender than C. crocea, and stouter than C. purpurea but with a distinctive coloration. In ornament it approximates to C. crocea, but appears to have more cinguli on the body-whorl.