Shell large, slender, ashy brown or light brown, pointed, rudely sculptured, ten-whorled, with a nucleus of about two whorls, round, small, glassy, smooth and inflated; fasciole slightly concave, nearly smooth, very steep, separated from the suture by a smoothish space, marginated by a slightly raised thread; suture appressed ; spiral sculpture of numerous subequal little elevated revolving threads with wider interspaces; they are strongest on the summit of the riblets, faint in the interspaces; there are about five in front of the fasciole and between it and the next suture; they are fainter on the canal; transverse sculpture of numerous (on the penultimate whorl 28) narrow, little elevated, slightly oblique riblets, beginning and strongest at the fasciole, and passing over the whorl to fade away on the base ; the thin margin of the suture is sometimes undulated by passing over them; aperture narrow, long, notch rounded, not deep; outer lip simple, thin, arched forward, not constricted for the canal; inner lip simple with a slight callus, thicker at the posterior angle opposite the notch ; pillar straight, attenuated and somewhat twisted in front, canal wide, slightly recurved. Max. long. of shell, 48.0 mm; of last whorl, 26.5 mm; of aperture, 21.0 mm; lat. of shell 12.0 mm.

Caribic. Venezuela.