Its color pattern is creamy yellow with radial dark purple flammules dorsally and ventrally, grading off on the anterior side to crimson and rose pink.

It shows long, spirally arranged peripheral spines on all five whorls (about equal to width of shoulder).

At the periphery the thin keel is produced into narrow, guttered spines with two or three radial threads on each.

The outer lip leadis at the suture, which is laid on the prominent basal spiral before mentioned.

This species closely resembles Bolma guttata (A. Adams, 1863) but the spire is relatively shorter and has a less pronounced granular sculpture.