Shell small, more or less spindle shaped, spire elevated and consists of five to six whorls, body whorl large. Aperture narrow and elongate, constricted in the middle, outer lip margin thick and crenulated, with four to five denticles on the interior, upper two large and often combined, inner lip with three short plicae on the anterior end, ridge in the middle forming an angle, canal short. Sculptured with five rows of nodules on the body whorl and two rows on each of the spire whorl, nodules some times become spinose. Colour white, nodules dark brown or black, aperture light violet to purplish black with white denticles.