Shell very long, lanceolate : brownish, more or less tinged with purple, with fine spiral lines of white and of dark brown, which are more conspicuous on the ribs; with a darker and wider brown line along the suture : with six very prominent acute transverse ribs on each whorl, which are nearly or quite continuous on the successive whorls; with a spiral elevated line, on the middle of the whorls, which is obsolete in the intercostal spaces and has nodulous intersections with the ribs; apex acute; spire with rectilinear outlines: whorls eight, scarcely convex, with a lightly impressed suture ; labrum finely denticulate within : sinus shallow: canal not very short.
Mean divergence 23°; length of spire 0.26 inch; total length 0.44 inch ; breadth 0.14 inch.