(Original description) The white, translucent shell is of moderate size, stout-fusiform, with swollen, angulated whorls, and a distinctly turreted, rapidly tapering spire.

The whole surface is covered by rather slender revolving cinguli, in the form of thin, raised lines, which are most conspicuous in the interspaces and more or less obsolete on the ribs.

On the subsutural band the spiral lines are finer and closer, and often indistinct toward the suture, but on the anterior part of the body whorl they become somewhat coarser and wider apart.

The siphonal canal is a little elongated, narrow, constricted at the base by the incurvature of the outer lip, and with the opening oblique, owing to the form of the columella margin, but not bent.

The columella is nearly straight, its inner margin forming a well-marked sigmoid curve, and strongly obliquely twisted at the anterior end.