(Original description) The small, white shell has a pale operculum with an apical protoconch.

The whorls of the protoconch are translucent white, glassy, inflated, about one and a half in number, then gradually passing into the reticulate sculpture of the five or six subsequent turns.

The suture is appressed with one or two close-set prominent spiral threads in front of it.

The whorls are sloping forward flatly from these threads to an angle at the shoulder forming the periphery.

The axial sculpture consists of (on the penultimate whorl about 16) strongly protractive short ribs starting at the shoulder, which they slightly nodulate, and reaching to the suture, but obsolete on the body whorl and not reaching much beyond the periphery The outer lip is thin and sharp.