Shell small, white, with a translucent thin periostracum and about five whorls (the nucleus eroded); spire slightly longer than the aperture; early whorls rounded with about fifteen slender, low, arcuate, protective, axial riblets which are obsolete on the last whorl; suture distinct, marginate, where the riblets are conspicuous as at the periphery and continued to the suture in front; there are also fine, well-marked lines of growth, all crossed by close-set, low, spiral threads which become coarser and slightly more distinct on the canal; anal sulcus deep, wide, rounded, the outer lip in front of it strongly protective, thin, simple; body and pillar with a thin wash of callus; the pillar straight, attenuated in front, aperture narrow and lunate, canal short, rather wide, not recurved. Lon. of shell, 11.25 mm; of last whorl, 8.5 mm, of aperture, 6.5 mm ; max. diam. 5.0 mm.