Shell rather thin and light, biconical, turreted, and sharply angled at the shoulder. Colour buff, with rufous stains on the columella, the lip insertion, and along the suture. Whorls eight, including the protoconch, which has two small smooth whorls, and a third larger depressed and crossed by sharp arched riblets.
Sculpture:—The adult whorls carry discontinuous prominent spaced ribs, which arise at the suture and continue to the base, those on the spire being perpendicular and set closer together, at the rate of ten to a whorl, those on the last whorl being wider spaced at eight to a whorl, and flexed forward below the shoulder; these cords gradually become smaller and closer; the whole shell is overrun by very fine and close-hair-lines which, decussated by a corresponding spiral sculpture, produces a fine grained surface. Aperture wide, protected by a prominent varix ; sinus wide and shallow ; canal short and open. Length 9 mm., breadth 3 mm.

Australia. Queensland: 8 fathoms, Weary Bay