2. Myrmica pedestris ^HNS

. M. fusco-nigra; capite thoraceque longitu-dinaliter striatis; antennis pedibusque ferrugineus: abdomine laevi, nitidissimo.

Female. Length 3 lines. Nigro-fuscous; the head and thorax longitudinally striated, the striae formed of rows of confluent punctures, the punctures finer on the head than on the thorax; the antennae, anterior margin of the head and the mandibles ferruginous, the legs ferruginous. The thorax transverse anteriorly; a narrow smooth shining impunctate line runs down the middle; the metathorax unarmed. Abdomen oblong-ovate, smooth, shining, and delicately punctured; the nodes of the peduncle smooth and impunctate, the first oblong, the second globose.

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).