[3] Thomas Wyatt (1838)[4] wrote about the shell of this species (as Anostoma globulosa): "Globose, with two small punctures, one on each side of the lip; slightly carinated, smooth, and white; margin reflected."

The base of the shell is rather sparsely marked with irregular reddish-brown spots and usually has a dark stripe below the basal suture.

The final whorl is carinated at the periphery, and has three deep, dark-colored grooves, as well as one small one behind the lip.

The outer margin of the peristome has four long folds within it, of which the columellar and the lower and upper palatal are subequal, the inner end of the latter being strongly bent upward.

Above it is a small upper superpalatal fold, which has united with the angle-lamella to form the wall of the respiratory foramen, perforating the end of the lip.