Shell small, up to 19.5 mm. (0,75 of an inch) in length, very thin, subpellucid, ovate, narrowed anteriorly and rather depressed. Sculpture consisting of very numerous fine radiating lirae, with linear interspaces, the whole crossed by finer and more dense concentric threads. Colour variable, pinkish-white or pale green, radiately lined in pink, red or greenish-brown. Interior shining with the external pattern showing through; spatula indistinct, yellowish to greenish.
Length: 15-20 mm; Width 11-13 mm; Height 4-7 mm.

A thin oval shell, smaller than pruinosus, and differing from that species in being strongly radially ribbed and variously-rayed with pink, red, or green but never with sky-blue spots.

South Africa, Natal.