The 6½ whorls are angulate, excavated above, ornamented with granose cinguli with square red spots, and minutely longitudinally striate.

The base of the shell contains 7 concentric cinguli, tessellated red and white.

The shell is rosy, sometimes olivaceous, ornamented with darker maculations on the body whorl, the cinguli tessellated.

The wide umbilicus is profound, finely striate, and lightly cingulate.

The simple columella is arcuate, lamellar, twisted at the umbilicus, forming a little canal at the base.