Shell of moderate size, of about six rounded whorls, the apex eroded, shell substance of a pale livid brown, covered by an olivaceous periostracum, the suture distinct and deep; axial sculpture of uniform fine silky incremental lines; spiral sculpture of uniform flattened spirals sep¬arated by narrow grooves, about twenty-seven to thirty spirals on the penultimate whorl; aperture ovate, outer lip (immature?) slightly crenulated by the external sculpture, inner lip erased, brownish, pillar white, straight; canal short, wide, deep, forming a well-marked fasciole. Height of shell, 38; of last whorl, 26; of aperture, 18; diameter, 17 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 223700. Type locality, Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait.
RANGE. Known only from type locality.