The shell is moderately small (maximum length 22 mm) and fusiform. The spire is high, consisting of five or six strongly shouldered postnuclear whorls and a protoconch of undetermined nature. The suture is weakly impressed and undulate. The bodv whorl is of moderate size and fusoid. The aperture is ovate and of moderate size, with a very narrow, shallow anal sulcus that extends deeply into the aperture. The outer apertural lip is unthickened and minutely serrate; its inner surface bears five moderately weak denticles. The columellar lip is entirely adherent and smooth. The siphonal canal is of moderate length, straight, and open.
The body whorl is nonvaricate. Axial sculpture consists of seven moderately prominent costae. Spiral sculpture consists of numerous primary and secondary cords; the shoulder bears four minor cords, these progressively stronger toward the shoulder margin; a single primary cord at the shoulder margin is followed by three secondary cords and a second primary cord midway on the body; below this are three secondary cords on the body and six on the canal.
Shell color is white. The three secondary cords between primary cords on the body and the one or two such cords at the base of the body are dark red-brown. The aperture is porcelaneous white.

Middle California coast from Pt. Conception to Ft. Ross (Mendocino County), California.