Shell broadly fusiform, with rather short spire, thin, greyish-white. Nucleus wanting, remaining whorls nearly 6, of which the upper one is likewise eroded, angularly convex, slightly excavated below the deep suture. Sculpture consisting of slightly oblique, narrow ribs, arcuated in the excavation, 15 in number in penultimate whorl, with blunt tubercles about the median part of upper whorls and on shoulder of last whorl, with beads at their upper extremities; just below the suture, the shell is covered with fine growth-striae and spiral lirae, these lirations being faint in the excavation, stronger and crowded in lower part of whorls, more remote on canal; last whorl attenuated below, passing without marked limit in the rather short canal. Aperture oval, slightly angular above, with a rather narrow canal below; peristome broken, according to growth-striae with a very shallow sinus below the suture; columellar margin concave above, directed to the left along the canal, with a thin layer of enamel. Operculum thin, corneous, with a terminal nucleus at the left side. Radula with 2 rows of teeth, in about 12 transverse rows, each tooth with a rather sharp point and a deep sinus at its basal margin. Range — Celebes and Arafura Sea in 1100-1780 metres.
Remarks—This species is very similar to neozelanica (Suter), the New Zealand Eocene type of the genus. Compared with neozelanica, Schepman's species differs only in having fewer, rather stronger axials with more pronounced peripheral tubercles, and a spire of equal height to that of the aperture plus the canal. In neozelanica the spire is considerably shorter than the aperture plus the canal.