The shell is elongated and acuminated. Its color varies from pure white to dark red brown. It contains seven
whorls, carinated above, though not very strongly. The
aperture is narrow, long, two fifths the length of the shell. The outer
lip is sharp, thin, strongly flexuous, produced below. The sinus is close to but not on the suture, not very deep or prominent. The
siphonal canal is one-third as long as the aperture, straight, narrow. The
columella is smooth, almost straight, without callus. The
protoconch is smooth white, pointed, drawn out. The
sculpture consists of longitudinal ribs thirteen or fourteen on the
body whorl, obsolete on the lower third of the whorl and not extending to the suture, below which is a smooth band only marked by oblique lines of growth. The ribs are slightly nodulous at their posterior terminations (where they are united by a slight carina) strong on the upper whorls, slightly flexuous on the convexity of the whorl. The whorl below the carina is marked by very faint grooves close together and passing over the ribs, stronger at the anterior end of the body whorl. ==Distribution==