Shell of moderate size, the spire longer than the aperture, white, with a thin, polished, olivaceous periostracum, and more than five whorls (the apex defective); whorls moderately rounded, suture distinct, deep; axial sculpture of fine silky incremental lines, sometimes with a tendency to cause wrinkles near the suture; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl, about 17) regular, narrow, rather deep grooves, with much wider flattish interspaces, uniformly covering the whole surface of the shell; aperture about twice as long as wide, outer lip retractively arcuate behind and protractively anteriorly, not reflected; pillar lip with a thin glaze, pillar white; canal short, wide, hardly reflected. Height of shell, 40; of last whorl, 27; of aperture, 18; diameter, 18 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 108980. Type locality, Bering Strait, near Port Clarence.
RANGE. Known only from type locality.

Bering Strait. Near Port Clarence. Alaska.