Pyrgocythara melita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl) eight rather sharp ribs extending from the suture (which they undulate) to the region of the siphonal canal and continuous up the spire in a direct line with somewhat wider interspaces.

The spiral sculpture consists of fine uniform evenly spaced rounded threads, not swollen where they cross the ribs.

A single thread at the shoulder is more prominent but not larger than the others, from which and from the suture it is separated by a space devoid of the spiral sculpture which elsewhere covers the surface.

The ribs are shortly arcuate when passing over the otherwise obscure anal fasciole, and the depressions between them, the suture and the shoulder are markedly excavated.