(Original description) The small shell is subulate, smooth, and polished.

The colour is yellowish white, with fulvous zigzag markings, interrupted on the body whorl by a narrow whitish spiral band below the periphery.

The spire is high, acuminate, conic, about 1½ times the height of the aperture.

The inner lip is narrow and smooth, very thin on the straight parietal wall.

[2] This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland to Bay of Plenty