Shell rather small, up to 31 mm. (1,25 inches) in length, but usually about 23 mm. (0,85 of an inch), rather thin, elongate ovate, narrowed anteriorly, rather depressed, and with the apex at about the anterior fifth. Sculpture weak, consisting of very numerous narrow radial thread crossed by dense, much finer, concentric lirae. Colour of exterior yellowish olive sparingly dark-brown speckled and with most of the radials minutely dotted with sky-blue. Interior yellowish olive, shining, without a clearly defined spatula. Length: 22-31 mm; Width 17-24 mm; Height 5-9 mm.

A thin oval shell of low profile, yellowish-olive, variously rayed and speckled in dark green or brown, easily distinguished from the next species, dunkeri, by its almost smooth surface and radial series of sky-blue spots.

South Africa, generally distributed.