Shell small, slender, thin, with a blunt apex, whitish, glistening; with a swollen nucleus of a whorl and a half and four and a half subsequent well rounded whorls; suture distinct, appressed, with a smooth, hardly constricted fasciole in front of it; axial sculpture chiefly of rather strong flexuous incremental lines and a few gradually obsolescent riblets on the earlier whorls; spiral sculpture of (on the last whorl 18-20) fine prominent threads rising above the incremental lines, with wider interspaces, covering the whole whorl in front of the fasciole; aperture ovate, about one-third the whole length, the anal sulcus forming nearly a semicircle, the outer lip thin and arcuate, canal wide; pillar twisted, attenuated in front; axis impervious. Length, 8.0; diameter, 2.7 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 333450.
The thin, glistening shell and rotund whorls are its conspicuous characters.

Two specimens off Georgia.