Shell pyramidal, imperforate, axis slightly curved, broad at the base, tapering to a sharp and slender point, thin, translucent and glossy. Colour white, the contained animal lending to the lower whorls a purple and to the upper an orange tinge. Whorls eleven, flattened, contracted at the suture and subangled at the base.The varices project as prominent buttresses: they are irregularly disposed and may or may not continue from whorl to whorl. The surface is sculptured with shallow, sometimes punctate grooves. Aperture large, oblique, subquadrate, thin; outer lip thin, everted; inner lip spreading a callus sheet on the body whorl; columella broad, rather straight, deeply inserted. Length, 8 mm.; breadth, 3,75 mm.
A few living specimens were taken in 41-50 fathoms off Cape Three Points ; off Wata Mooli in 54-59 fathoms.