Appearance
(Original description) The shell is conic and acute, appearing yellowish-white. It is cancellate, which causes it to appear granulated, with prominent, equidistant granules. There are ten revolving impressed lines on the body whorl, and a somewhat more conspicuous groove near the summit of each whorl. The spire is as long as or longer than the body, and features a rufous revolving line near the suture.
The body whorl is trilineate with rufous lines, the lines being placed one near the suture, one on the middle, and the third, rather darker, at the origin of the beak. The suture is regular and deeply impressed. The beak is distinguished by a profound depression from the body whorl and is slightly reflected.