Vexillum styria: Shell pale yellowish, white, or pinkish, sometimes with a faint peripheral brownish band, or mottled brown and white; elongated, acute, cancellately sculptured; nucleus elongated, pointed, glassy, pale brownish, smooth, of about three and a half whorls ; other whorls 10-14, subconvex, with a distinct but not channelled suture; sculpture of about (on the last whorl) 25 slightly flexuous regular narrow even transverse ribs separated by wider interspaces, extending clear over the whorl; spiral sculpture of (behind the suture about 6-10) even threads, separated by squarely channelled narrower interspaces, crossing the ribs and with a tendency to form a nodule at the intersection; canal rather slender, with seven or eight strong spiral threads externally, which are crossed only by incremental lines ; the tip of the canal is slightly recurved; internally the outer lip is thin, unreflected, and smooth; deeper in the throat are 6-10 fine spiral elevated lirae, ending in the adult in as many little knobs. On the body whorl near the angle with the outer lip, at certain stages, is a single small elevated callus ; over the surface and on the column the callosity is thin ; the pillar has three well-defined plaits behind its own margin, the posterior the largest; the completely adult may have two more. Lon. of shell, 19.0 mm ; of aperture, 7.0 mm ; max. diam. of shell, 5.0 mm.

Vexillum styria: This species varies in the relative strength of the ribs and spiral threads, and the prominence of the intersections ; some specimens are more attenuated than others. The measurements of the description are taken from the most perfect specimen, but, judging from fragments, it attains a size one third larger, and the adult will be proportionally somewhat stouter.

Vexillum styria: Gulf of Mexico. Off Havana. Caribbic area.