Shell thin, translucent, imperforate, with a paucispiral protoconch. Teleoconch: whorls moderately convex, strongly constricted just above the suture; sculpture made up of very numerous radial folds, very weak, more mmarked subsuturally and vanishing anteriorly, especially on the base; these radials are crossed by about 5 spiral cordlets on the penultimate whorl; the intersections between radials and spirals give rise to low buttons. The shell is close to that of parvula but bears a thinner sculpture, and its buttons are never found on parvula; it is close to punctura but with a less marked sculpture and, again, the presence of the buttons (which lack absolutely in punctura); the whorls are less rounded than in zylensis but the shell is as thin as in the latter.