Female shell rather thin, inflated, short-spired, with about six whorls exclusive of the (lost) nucleus; the suture distinct with a flattish or slightly excavated space on the whorl in front of it, beyond which the whorl is evenly rounded; the color is a warm buff, increasing to orange on the enamel of the pillar; axial sculpture of fairly obvious, fine incremental lines; spiral sculpture of a strong cord at the shoulder, two on the apical whorl, three on the penultimate whorl, eight or ten on the last whorl, of which that at the shoulder is strongest; between these cords are three to five flattish, less elevated close-set threads, except on the canal, where the spirals are wider, flatter, and more or less obsolete; aperture broad, outer lip thin, sharp, body and pillar with a layer of enamel, the pillar short, strongly twisted; the canal wide, ovate with apical nucleus bent to the left. Height of shell, 94; of last whorl, 77; diameter, 60 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 225603. Type locality, off Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, in 50-100 fathoms.
RANGE. Pribilof Islands to Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.

Arctic Russia. Bering Sea. Off the Pribilov Islands.