Shell regularly elongate-conic, dark brown, with the top of the tubercles paler; nuclear whorls broken with only a portion of the last whorl remaining which is smooth except for a sharp central keel; postnuclear whorls 11, sculptured with 3 spiral cords and almost equally strong axial ribs, of which 16 appear on the first whorl, increasing to 24 on the penultimate whorl; the intersection of the spiral cords and axial ribs forming large, raised tubercles and the spaces enclosed by them deep, square pits; on the spiral cords the posterior is at the summit of the whor]s and the anterior a little above the suture with the median about half way between them; the tubercles of the posterior spiral row rounded, rather faint on the first 2 or 3 whorls but slightly the largest on the later whorls, the tubercles of the median and anterior row somewhat truncated on the posterior face; periphery with a spiral cord only a little less strong than those on the spire and rendered somewhat nodulous by the extensions of the axial ribs; base short, rounded, with 2 spiral cords of which the upper is nearer to the peripheral cord than to the lower, entire surface of spire and base with microscopic striations; aperture subquadrate, outer lip thin, scalloped by the spiral cords, anterior channel strong, columella short, not reflected. The type measures: length, 6.2 mm.; diameter, 2.0 mm.

The base of the shell of this species is sculptured with 2 unequal cords in comparison to 3 equal cords on Ceiithiopsis cosmia Bartsch.