Shell olive brown, with five whorls, the nucleus eroded, suture distinct: upper whorls with about 16 axial, rather rude, roughly sigmoid riblets crossing the whorls, obsolete on the latter half of the shell, the incremental lines irregular; spiral sculpture of almost obsolete fine spiral striae most evident on the last whorl, the interspaces flattish, wider, or subequal; aperture brownish, simple, pillar white, canal slightly recurved. Height of shell, 20 mm; of last whorl, 14 mm; diameter, 9 mm".

Arctic. Chiachi Islands, Aleutian chain.