Shell large, solid, spire may be short and smooth or high with angular whorls, body whorl with the expanded outer lip proportionately broader, almost as broad as high. Edge of winged outer lip rounded, stands at a considerable distance from the columella, weak stromboid notch, very short siphonal canal. Columella with glazed callus. Surface smooth, apical whorls spirally grooved, apex with whitish remnants of varices, body whorl striated at the base, smoothly rounded or with faint ridges, surface with close-set, wavy, transpiral orange- red lines, interior and columella white, parietal wall may often be metallic.