Shell small, 3.5-8.7 mm., solid, similar to Eucithara but with a shorter more widely open aperture, which has a variced outer lip but no denticles or processes either within the outer lip or on the columella. The protoconch is small, bluntly rounded to dome-shaped of 2-3 smooth whorls, followed by a brephic stage of curved axial riblets. The adult sculpture is of long bluntly rounded axial folds, overridden by dense spiral lirae.

Range
Recent: North Queensland, Loyalty Islands, Philippines, New Caledonia and Arabian Sea.
Fossil: Oligocene of Tasmania, Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand and probably the Pliocene of Java and Japan.