Shell small, slender, whitish, with a smooth nucleus of a whorl and a half and six subsequent moderately rounded whorls; suture distinct, not appressed; axial sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl about 18) protractively oblique narrow close set equal ribs crossing the whorls on the spire, obsolete on the base and pillar; incremental lines feeble; spiral sculpture of faint obscure threads between the ribs, and two sharp grooves at the margin of the base, which seem to duplicate the suture when one of them is exposed; the base is free from ribs but behind the aperture is a well defined hump or varix; outer lip produced in front, the anal sulcus shallow leaving an ill-defined fasciole, aperturo narrow, canal short and wide. Length, 11; diameter, 4 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 108298. Off Georgia, a dozen worn specimens.