As Nitidella elegans:
Shell small, smooth, polished, solid, of eight whorls, which are very slightly convex, though not flattened. Suture appressed, not strongly marked. Canal short, outer lip sharp, slightly Urate inside, straight, or hardly sinuated. Columella smooth, with a thin callus, outside of which a few faint striae pass round the canal on the anterior part of the last whorl. Shell subulate, acutely pointed; nucleus yellowish white, pointed; first four whorls with a brownish yellow ground reticulated by white dots, an ornamentation which also appears on the anterior part of the last whorl. Markings in general consisting of transverse, alternate, dark red brown and white bars, slightly fluctuated on the last whorl. The white and brown rectangular bars, not being continuous from one whorl to another, give the shell a tesselated aspect. Lon. 0,28, lat. 0,11 in. Defl. 33°.

Panama; among a large number of minute shells collected by the late Thos. Bridges, F. L. S., one specimen occurred.