5. Ponera nitida ^HNS.

P. pallide ferruginea, laevis et nitida; margine mandibularum bidentato.

Worker. Length 2 1 / 2 lines. Pale ferruginous, very smooth and shining; the eyes small, round, and placed forwards at the sides of the head; the mandibles porrect, with two stout short teeth on their inner margin. Thorax, with the sides flattened, above slightly convex; the metathorax oblong-quadrate above. The node of the peduncle quadrate and incrassate, as wide as the metathorax; the abdomen is constricted between the first and second segments, and has a few pale scattered hairs.

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).