« A pretty, dingy-white shell, its slender, elongated form giving it somewhat the aspect of a Terebra. It is remarkable for its varied sculpture. There are 8 flattened, turreted whorls, with a marginal line near the suture. The six upper ones are marked with regular, somewhat distant, acute folds; the last but one and the upper half of the last are smooth, and the lower half is occupied by about half a dozen regular, deeply impressed, revolving striae. Aperture small and narrow, less than half the length of the shell; lip sharp, somewhat sinuate near the front, and rendered serrate where the revolving striae cut it; striate and white within; callus on the columella rather sparing. » – A. A. Gould: “Descriptions of shells collected by Dr. Charles J. Bates, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Navy, on the coast of Liberia”, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History vol. V, Boston 1847, p.293.