Shell small, very solid, and biconical. Colour ochraceons - buff, darkening on the spire and within the aperture to ferruginous. Whorls seven, including a protoconch of two and a half whorls, the last of which is sharply, delicately, keeled. Suture impressed and undulating. Sculpture: the entire shell is encircled by comparatively coarse spiral threads, a pair of which on the periphery exceed the rest in size ; on the last whorl these spirals amount to twenty-three, and on the penultimate to nine ; the radials assume the form of peripheral tubercles, set at ten to a whorl; on the base each rib splits into two small riblets. Aperture: the varix is large and prominent, having four teeth on the oral margin ; sinus broad and pouting; canal short and open; columella lip crossed by four plications. Length 6 mm., breadth 3 mm.

Australia. Queensland: 5 to 10 fathoms, Hope Island