(Original description) The shell is thin, delicate, pale chestnut, angulated, feebly plicate, spiralled, subscalar.

It has a high conical, chestnut-tipped spire, a distinct suture, a tumid body whorl, a short rounded base, and a broad, triangular, lop-sided snout.

The longitudinal sculpture on the whole surface is scored with fine unequal hair-like lines of growth, of which on the shoulder at about equal distances one is plicated.

The body whorl is somewhat tumid with a rounded convex base, which contracts gradually to a blunt triangular snout, which is not in the least emarginate at the point.

The inner lip is shallowly excavated, glazed, short across the body, concave at the base of the columella, which is narrow, quite straight, and only cut off and twisted at the extreme point.