Shell moderate sized to relatively large 10 - 44 mm., of light build, elongate-fusiform, with a tall turreted spire and a long, almost straight, unnotched anterior canal. Protoconch of 2 1/2 whorls, dome-shaped, sharply submedially carinated throughout, and ending with a well defined edge, which sweeps arcuately forward to a partly immersed blunt termination, suggestive of a sinusigerid-claw. Sinus very braad and shallow, occupying the shoulder slope. Outer lip thin; no parietal tubercle or callus pad. Adult sculpture of flat-topped spiral cords, beaded at the peripheral angle by numerous short oblique axials, and typically, with a second angulation of the body-whorl proceeding from the suture and defined by a heavier smooth spiral oord. The genus is apparently close to Comitas but the shell is of ligther build, has the axial sculpture restricted to the peripheral carina, there is a second smooth carina on the base, the sinus is wider and more shallow and the protoconch is sharply carinated throughout. Range - New Zealand, Recent and Pleistocene. Also recorded from the Miocene and Pliocene of Okinawa, but it is doubtful if there is true relationship.