Shell small, ovate-lanceolate, turreted on the upper whorls. Colour buff, with chocolate stains on the pillar and canal. Whorls seven, including the protoconch, which consists of a minute rounded upstanding initial whorl, followed by two smooth whorls with a median keel. Sculpture: the upper and lower whorls have diverse patterns of sculpture; in the first adult, that is the fourth whorl, there is a flat sloping shoulder, margined by a sharp and prominent keel; anterior to the keel the whorl is vertical, and carries two spiral threads; under the keel spring faint radial riblets that vanish before they traverse the whorl. On the last whorl the contour changes from pagodiform to ovate, with a faint shoulder angle; below the suture run four fine close spiral threads, followed about the periphery by three prominent cords, and again on the base and snout by nine evenly spaced spiral threads ; overridden by these spirals are about thirteen oblique riblets, which are faint on the shoulder, prominent on the periphery, where they form with the spirals a conspicuous open network, and vanish on the base; on the penultimate there are seven spirals. Aperture: the varix is prominent; under the free limb of it are five small entering plaits ; the pillar is unarmed ; the canal short, straight, and effuse. Length 4,5 mm., breadth 1,5 mm.

Australia.
Queensland : 4 to 14 fathoms, Albany Passage (type); 5 to 10 fathoms, Hope Island ; 15 fathoms, Palm Island ; 5 fathoms, Van Diemans Inlet, Gulf of Carpentaria ; 10 fathoms, Cape Sidmouth; 20 fathoms, off Endeavour Reef.