Shell dextral, not depressedly tubinate, widely umbilicated; sculpture quite smooth above, close costulation at sutural tube, gradually decreasing to a few distant very minute striae, fine close costulation within the umbilicus; color whitish, apex pinkish brown; spire subconic; apex papillate; suture deep, the sutural tube 1.5 mm. in length, well developed; whorls 4, sides convex, the last slightly constricted near sutural tube, then swelling and descending towards the aperture; aperture ovate, angulate above at inner upper margin of the peristome; peristome double, the outer expanded slightly and to its greatest extent on lower inner margin; columellar margin rounded. ”

-Godwin-Austen (1889) original descriptions –