Its color is golden, finely reticulated with light golden-brown, and showing several broad and narrow spiral crimson bands.

The outline is long and the polished surface show s no spiral striae except on the penultimate and beginning of the body whorl, where fine, scarcely impressed, close spiral lines can be seen under a strong lens.

The ground color consists of a fine zigzagged mottling of whitish and light brown, through which the underlying nacre shines with a golden iridescence.

So that when lying on its face the peristome is in contact with a plane surface all the way around except the median part of the columellar lip.

This is a pretty little species, usually confounded with Stomatella impertusa, but easily distinguished when its profile is examined.

[3] This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Central and East Indian Ocean off Mozambique, Aldabra and Chagos; in the Western Pacific; in the South Pacific off Tonga;and off Japan, the Philippines, Polynesia and Queensland, Australia.