The length of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 7 mm. The five
whorls are flattened. They are obsoletely ribbed and transversely striated. The suture shows a raised line. The outer
lip is inflected in the middle. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, banded with chestnut. (Original description as
Anarithma stepheni) The minute, white shell is particularly beautiful. It contains six
whorls , compact, clathrate, with close longitudinal riblets and revolving lirae. Just underneath the sutures the ante-penultimate and penultimate whorls are sparsely spotted with fulvous. In the
body whorl the spots again occur towards the middle, but are contiguous to, and below joined with, one large dorsal effusion of the same colour. The
aperture is narrow. The simple outer
lip is thickened..The
columella is upright. ==Distribution==