Shell small,22-27 mm. (ca 1 inch) in height, with a tall narrow spire, 25°-28°, and a truncated anterior end. Spire 1% height of aperture plus canal. Whorls 10 1/2 to 11, including a small smooth erect dome-shaped protoconch of 1 1/2 whorls, followed by a quarter whorl of stout brephic axials. Spire whorls with firstly a conspicuous rounded subsutural fold, followed by a wide steeply descending concave shoulder area to a centrally placed bluntly rounded and projecting peripheral keel, the whole encircled by spiral lines and cords, crossed by much stronger rounded and flexuous axials which are continuous from the lower suture to the peripheral carina, tend to become obsolescent over the shoulder area but regain strength as a series of bluntly rounded bosses, studding the subsutural fold. Three or four spiral threads on the shoulder slope, 2-3 fused to form the peripheral carina and four cords between the carina and the lower suture, the lower pair the stronger. Base with a further four strong spiral cords, each rendered nodulose where crossed by the axials, which number 16-17 per whorl, followed by 6 plain spirals on the anterior end. Aperture subquadrate, narrower than high, with an excavated smooth parietal area but no callus pad or tubercle. Outer lip thin and unvariced. Anterior canal very short with an oblique shallowly notched termination. Anal sinus moderately deep, with a broadly rounded apex, situated at the middle of the shoulder slope. Below, the sinus is confluent with the forwardly projected arcuate slope of the outer lip. Colour pale reddish-brown except for two white spiral bands, one at the peripheral carina and the other on the base just below the level of the top of the aperture.

From Japan to Philippines.