The small, short shell has a fusiform, or subovate shape, with a low spire and very large body whorl, forming about three-fourths the total length.

There are four whorls below the protoconch, very rapidly increasing, strongly convex, but frequently slightly flattened at the periphery, and sometimes distinctly angulated at the shoulder, but more commonly evenly rounded.

The sculpture on the rest of the shell consists of numerous, rather fine, thin, regular revolving cinguli, which are separated by interspaces about twice their own breadth on the lower whorls, but more crowded on the upper ones.

The riblets are nearly straight on the periphery of the whorls, but are somewhat angularly bent at the shoulder, and run obliquely forward across the subsutural band to the suture.

The aperture is rather large, broad-ovate, a little angulated at the shoulder, and with a very slight constriction at the base of the very short and rather narrow siphonal canal.