The shell is moderately large for the Typhinae (maximum length 23 mm) and roughly, broadly fusiform. The spire is high and acute, consisting of five convex or weakly subangulate postnuclear whorls and a protoconch of undetermined nature. The suture is strongly impressed. The body whorl is roughly fusoid but is given a broad, stocky appearance by the presence of a broad, simple varical flange. The aperture is ovate, and the peristome is weakly erect in the center of a depression formed by the presence of two surrounding varical flanges. The outer apertural lip is thickly erect and crenulate and reflects on its outer surface several diverse kinds of sculpture; the inner lip is thickened, adherent above, and detached and erect below. The anal siphonal tubes are not prominent, each sitting on the shoulder margin immediately behind the receding side of a varix; the opening of each tube is spoutlike, with the spout turned obliquely backward and upward. The siphonal canal is closed, deeply excavated at the base of the varix, and then abruptly bent backward and tapering into a short tube, this (in the specimen examined) open in this area; the closure is formed by the meeting and fusing of the two sides of the canal, as in the members of the Ocenebrinae.
The body whorl bears three prominent, winglike or bladelike varices. The advancing side of the varix is comparatively low, but the receding side extends outward tangentially to the normal growth direction of the shell, and the outer margin curls ventrally (in the direction of growth) and is supported by several strutlike cords on the ventral side of the varical flange. A high, narrow partition connects the varix region above the aperture with the posterior end of the last varical flange. Other axial sculpture consists solely of fine, raised growth lines. Spiral sculpture consists of cords and threads: there are four prominent cords on the shoulder and upper portion of the body, these apparent only on the varical flange; the body and canal bear about 50 fine, deeply divided spiral threads, these varying in prominence and grouped into paired stronger ones and lesser intercalary ones. The intersection of these threads and the fine axial-growth lines imparts a scabrous texture to the surface of the shell, a feature1 seen throughout the Muricidae but uncommon in the Typhinae. Between the receding edge of the varical flange and the bulge of the body, the shell is depressed and shows a surface of large, deep pits; these are found inconsistently over the remainder of the shell and appear to be arranged roughly spirally.
Shell color is pale brown or tan, with off-white varical flanges and darker purple-brown blotches on the body just before and after each varix. The tubes are also dark purple-brown, A row of small dark-brown spots follows the outer apertural lip from just within it.

Central Mexican coast; known to us from Barra de Xavidad and Bahia Coastocomate (Jalisco) and Sayulita (Nayarit), Mexico.