The protoconch consists of about 1½ smooth whorls, the lower distinctly carinate, apex blunt.

Sculpture—spirals con sist of numerous fine lines on the keel and above and below it, indistinct in some specimens, on the body whorl usually more pronounced.

The axials consist of growth lines only, variable in strength, arcuate between the keel and suture above.

The outer lip is angled at the keel, thence concave followed by a convexity, and beneath this rapidly narrowing to the siphonal canal.

The columella is narrowly callused, straight in the middle portion, narrowing and slightly twisted to the left.