Alaba phasionella: Shell elongately conical, thin, semipellucid, whitish, encircled by several thread-like, more or less interrupted, brown lines, with a band of alternate white and brown spots above the sutures, and a few short longitudinal brown flames beneath them ; whorls nine, nearly flat; aperture ovate ; columella arcuate ; outer lip simple, acute. Alt. 3 lines, diam. 1 line.

Shell small, elongately conical, smooth, shining; white, encircled with a reddish brown spotted band just above the sutures, the spots being squarish and spaces between approximately of equal width. Spire slightly more than half the length of shell. Whorls flatly convex, a little angulated on the body-whorl. Interior whitish, through which the spots are plainly visible. Aperture oval; outer lip sharp. Size: 0,25 inch.