light-brown, shining. Spire high, turriculate. Protoconch of a lighter colour, 1 ½ whorls, top flattened, radially striate and on the periphery with a row of elongated small nodules. Whorls 9, the second has a slightly greater diameter than the third; sides biangulate, nearly straight; base flat, depressed round the canal. Suture very distinctly impressed, margined below by a small thread. Aperture subquadrate, produced into an open and short canal, which is a little turned to the left and backward. Outer lip sharp, but little convex, basal lip concave. Columella slightly concave, the inner lip spreading as a very thin, narrow, and whitish glaze over it.

Altitude, 8 mm.; diameter, 3 mm.

Type to be presented to the Colonial Museum.

One specimen was found, and I do not think it is adult. Our other species, C. sarissa, Murd., is smaller and more subulate, it has three spiral threads, and the nodules are less prominent.