(Original description) The strong shell is broadly fusiform It is yellowish, painted and spirally lineated with red-brown.

The post-nuclear whorls are convex, with an undulated suture, accompanied by a subsutural rib or keel, below this a slight excavation.

The convexly rounded whorls have scarcely a tendency to be angular below the excavation The sculpture consists of strong rounded ribs, crossing, though less distinctly, the excavation, 10 in number on the body whorl, where they nearly reach the base.

A similar zone exists below the periphery, much more conspicuous between the ribs, the principal lirae being nearly without exception red-brown, especially 4 of them on the body whorl.

The peristome is rather thin, with a very shallow sinus near the siphonal canal, which is short and broad.