The shell is close to that of alesii, but with less radial ribs and a deeper suture. Protoconch of type B. Teleoconch: whorls flat, separated from each other by a marked suture, with a radial sculpture of very numerous ribs, about 24 on the last whorl, broadly orthocline and slightly sinuous, as wide as their interspaces; these radial ribs are weel marked on the first whorls, but become progressively obsolete anteriorly; some spirals, more or less visible, run along the abapical part of the whorls: like in dollfusi, they are 2 on the penultimate whorl, and at least 3 visible on the last one; aperture showing a water droplet section, acute adapically, flat externally, rounded at its base, with a visible columellar tooth.