[1] (Original description) The large, fusiform shell is rich reddish brown, deepest on the columella, with a closely adherent, very thin, polished epidermis.

The spiral sculpture consists of two sorts: first, a fine, sharp, slightly irregular striation, which covers the whole surface; secondly, of revolving elevated cinguli (raised spiral lines), of which three on the periphery are more widely and deeply separated and more elevated than the others.

On the body whorl in front of the periphery the cinguli are flat-topped little elevated wide bands with narrower interspaces.

Above the periphery is one well-marked cingulum slightly turreting the whorl which inclines from it to the suture in a flattened manner.

[2] E. cingulata can be found in Atlantic waters, ranging from the Bahamas south to Brazil.