44. Ponera pilosula ^HNS.

Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines.-Obscure dark-red-brown, with the antennal, mandibles, legs, margins of the segments of the abdomen and its apex, more or less ferruginous; the insect entirely covered with a fine silky pile, or bloom; the head, thorax, node and basal segment of the abdomen with scattered punctures; the thorax and node at their apex concavely truncate, the truncation smooth, the node oblong, rounded anteriorly.

Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.)

A variety of this species is found, entirely pale ferruginous.