Shell short, conical, glistening, white clouded with light brown or buff; whorls stout, well rounded: nucleus of two translucent turns, smooth or transversely slightly wrinkled; remainder comprising five or six turns separated by a deep but not channelled suture; sculpture of (on the last whorl about fourteen) stout rounded ribs with wider interspaces, completely crossing the whorls, and fine incremental striae; spiral sculpture of (on the last whorl about ten) revolving ridges, faint in the interspaces, strongly ovally noduled on the ribs, three rows showing on the upper whorls; ribs interlocking at the sutures; aperture rounded, with its edge continuous and raised, contracted in front of a stout varix, lirate on both sides, a stout tooth on the body and another at the base of the pillar; a deep groove behind the siphonal fasciole; canal short, strongly twisted. Operculum serrate at the sides. Length of shell, 12.0 mm; of last whorl, 8.0 mm; of aperture, 5.0. mm; max. lat. of shell, 7.5 mm.
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Caribic. At Barbados, in 76 fms.; near Santa Cruz, in 115 fms., rocky bottom, temperature 65°; near Martinique, in 170 fms.; off Santa Lucia, in 116 fms., rocky bottom, bottom temperature 58°. 5 F.