Shell of moderate size, 18-34 mm., fusiform, with a tall pagodiform spire, strongly angulated, usually nodulose, situated almost at the lower suture. Body-whorl rather short, rapidly excavated to a relatively short, flexed, unnotched anterior canal. Protoconch paucispiral. subnaticoid and smooth. Adult sculpture with the low-set bluntly rounded carina, either smooth or nodulose. Aperture pyriform, with a thin outer lip. Sinus moderately deep and narrowly U-shaped, its apex nearer to the periphery than to the suture. Operculum clavatulid, ovate-lunate, with narrowly rounded ends and a medio-lateral nucleus, on the columellar side. Range — Recent, Japan to the Philippines and South China Sea, Miocene-Pliocene of Okinawa and Eocene to Miocene of Japan.