(Original description) The solid, biconic, acute shell is slate gray with whitish projections.
The suture is distinct, appressed, bordered by a small thread behind and a strong white cord in front betAveen it and the fascicle which is constricted narrow and minutely spirally striated.
The other spiral sculpture consists of (on the spire two) peripheral whitish cords, the anterior stronger and swollen where it passes over the ribs.
On the body whorl in front of the periphery are seven similar but smaller cords with wider, minutely striated interspaces sometimes carrying an intercalary thread.
The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl 10) short rounded ribs prominent only on the periphery and extending from the fasciole to the siphonal canal, with subequal interspaces.