(Original description) The small shell is brownish, with a tendency to banding, paler at the shoulder and on the base.

The suture is distinct, slightly appressed, with no fasciolar constriction.

The spiral sculpture consists of fine flattish threads separated by narrow striae very minutely reticulated by the incremental lines and most conspicuous in the intervals between the ribs, practically covering the whole surface of the shell.

The axial sculpture, beside almost microscopic lines of growth, consists of (on the body whorl 14) short rounded ribs, slightly angulated at the shoulder and extending from the suture to the siphonal canal with subequal interspaces.

[2] This marine species occurs off Vancouver Island, Canada.