Shell large, 32-47 mm., tall narrow spired, with low-set peripheral nodes, obsolete from the lower whorls, and an ovate body-whorl, truncated to a short straight anterior canal, with an unnotched spout-like termination, Protoconch paucispiral, globose and smooth. Sinus broad, concavely arcuate, of moderate depth, occupying most of the ill-defined shoulder slope, thence confluent with a broadly arcuate swing of the outer lip, resulting in a sigmoid profile for the whole of the thin edged lip. Operculum absent, and radula toxoglossate, a pair of slender marginals, barbed at the tip (Thiele). The subfamily location of the genus is a little uncertain. The absence of an operculum and the type of radula suggest the Daphnellinae, but on the other hand the smooth paucispiral protoconch and turriculid style of sinus favour reference to the Turriculinae. Range — Gulf of Aden to the Flores Sea in deep water, 300 - 900 fathoms.