Its colour is buff, the cords on the rib-summits of the periphery picked out with chocolate, the aperture flesh- tint.
Sculpture : seven prominent oblique rounded ribs cross each whorl, and mount the spire continuously, the last forming a varix to the aperture.
Across these run close fine radial laminae, puckered into imbricating scales on crossing the spirals.
The siphonal canal is open, short, recurved, the canal-tips of previous apertures enclosing with a frill a false umbilicus.
On the right side there are seven evenly spaced entering ridges which penetrate a short distance only.