The folds terminate in short nodes at the periphery, twelve to sixteen in number on the body whorl, and also scalloping the sutures.

The base of the shell is flat, somewhat depressed around the middle, finely concentrically lirate and radiately striate.

The suboval aperture is very oblique, white within, slightly channelled at the carina, but scarcely angulate.

The short columella is bluish, rosy or white, curved, and dentate below.

The base of the aperture is horizontal, sometimes with a submarginal row of minute tubercles within.