Shell polished, short-fusiform, snow white, eight-whorled; nucleus eroded in the specimen; whorls full, appressed in front of the suture, elsewhere gently rounded; transverse sculpture of delicate incremental lines; spiral sculpture of obscure almost microscopic striae and a few close set extremely tine threads on the canal; aperture elongated ; anal notch very shallow, rounded; leaving only a faint slightly flattened fasciole; outer lip sharp, simple, arched well forward, especially anteriorly; body without callus; pillar thin, white, short, slightly twisted; canal short, very wide, hardly differentiated; maximum longitude of shell 43; maximum latitude 20mm.

In 812 fathoms, mud, near the Galapagos Islands.