(Original description) Shell: Small, obovate, with a scarcely noticeable spire, strong and porcellanous white, lustrous, with an exceedingly narrow aperture.

The outer lip is truncate but not emarginate, varixed, and toothless, while the columella has four small folds ending in a sharp point.

Spire: Just perceptibly raised, more noticeable by color than form, with the suture slightly more opaque than the rest of the whorls.

The outer lip rises as high as the apex, ascends slightly at its insertion with a feeble, bluntly angular sinus, and is obliquely truncate in front but not emarginate.

About two-fifths of its length is occupied by the folds, the highest being horizontal and the lower three slightly stronger, very oblique, and recognizable across the pad of enamel encircling the point of the base.