[1] Distribution: USA: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina; 41.67°N to 34.65°N; 75.58°W to 65.77°W.

[2] The large, strong shell is regularly conical, with a flattened base, and lacks an umbilicus, It is yellowish white or light yellow, with more or less numerous narrow, spiral bands of pale brown or dark brown, and with large squarish spots of bright rosy red on the spire.

The body whorl has eight to ten conspicuous, raised, nodulous revolving ribs, of which three or four are much smaller and alternate with the larger ones.

The interstices are concave, brownish, glossy, and obliquely striated by the lines of growth.

The radula is somewhat different from the typical species of the genus; there is no large lateral tooth, between the inner and outer series.