By van Benthem Jutting (1952)
"shell short-cylindrical, white. First whorl smooth, subsequent ones ornamented with fine white transverse ribs, closely placed on the upper whorls, but more distintly on the last one. Not shinning or transparent. No spiral striae discernible. Whorls 3 1/2 - 4/ First two in one plane, or the apex slightly emerging. suture deep. Last whorl transversely constricted in the middle, then widening again, twisted at almost a right angle to the distal part. the trumpet-shaped end points obliquely upward and backward. Umbilicus open, but not wide. Aperture round, directed obliquely up and back, adnate. Peristome continuous, circular or rounded-triangular, duplex. reaching over halfway up the height of the previous wharl almost to the suture between second and third whorls. Operculum unknown."