Shell small, brownish, with a tendency to banding, paler at the shoulder and on the base, with six whorls, including a small, smooth nuclear whorl: suture distinct, slightly appressed, with no fasciolar constriction; spiral sculpture of fine flattish threads separated by narrow striae very minutely reticulated by the incremental lines and most conspicuous in the intervals between the ribs, practically covering the whole surface of the shell; axial sculpture, beside almost microscopic lines of growth, of (on the last whorl 14) short rounded ribs, slightly angulated at the shoulder and extending from the suture to the canal with subequal interspaces; anal sulcus shallow, aperture narrow, simple, inner lip erased, canal short. Straight. Height of shell. 11 mm; of last whorl. 7 mm: diameter, 4 mm.

Range: Clayoquot, Vancouver Island, to Drakes Bay, California