Shell of moderate size, 24.5 mm. (1 inch) in height, bucciniform, with tall spire, almost twice height of aperture plus canal, and truncated base. Whorls about 11,5 , protoconch missing, medially rather sharply angulate. Sculptured with numerous, regular, slightly arcuate, obtuse axial plicae, about 18 on the penultimate, which gradually disappear towards the sutures, crossed by a few spiral cords, which become nodulose at the points of intersection with the axials. Spiral ribs 4-5 between sutures and 18-19 on the last whorl. The nodules at the peripheral angulation are largest and of subspinose form. Aperture with a very heavy varix on the outside of the outer lip; sinus broad and very shallow, just a slight insinuation. Parietal wall with a slight callus node. Colour pale fleshy-brown, paler near the sutures and on the base; surface smooth, without gloss. Operculum thin, yellowish-corneous, leaf-shaped with a terminal nucleus. Radula; marginals only, of modified "wishbone-type", not severed into two components. Range —Japan, 150 fathoms.