« Shell small, ovate, smooth, shining, generally pale grey, more or less zoned with yellow, and with a white band near the upper part of the whorls, which is ornamented with patches of purplish-black waved lines, the whorl below the band being closely adorned with finer zigzag or undulating lines of the same colour ; spire short, apex obtuse ; whorls 3, rounded ; aperture oblique, semilunar ; outer lip thin ; columella covered with a white, polished, spreading callus ; margin slightly arcuate and crenate in the middle. » – Ibid. p.19.