It is pale yellow (or whitish), banded with several brown (sometimes pinkish-red) oblique transverse lines.

The aperture is narrow, slightly widened at the base, extending nearly to the entire length of the shell.

The outer lip is slightly compressed in the middle, the edge is curved,outside very thickened, and the ends of the bands well marked.

The bands are thus disposed: just below the suture there is a very broad one, which is sharply defined above but not so beneath, but gradually blends into the ground-colour of the shell.

A little below this there are two narrow lines close together, then a single one round about the middle of the whorl, then two more approximated, which terminate at the base of the outer lip.