The shell of this species is more elongate than many others, exasperatus, striatus and unidentatus excepted. The whorls are very flat, with a shallow and thin suture; each adult whorl bears 6 spiral cords slightly granulose, with the usual little prosocline striae between. The base is very slightly convex, forming and angle at the periphery of the last whorl; it bears also 6 cords, with weaker granules. Colours: protoconch yellow; teleoconch red or green, or both; the spiral cords are of the same colour than their backgrounds, but darker.