114. Formica custodiens ^HNS. B.M.

Worker. Length 2 lines.-Head, thorax and legs ferruginous, and covered with a silky cinereous pile. Head emarginate behind. The thorax deeply strangulated at the base of the metathorax; the scale of the peduncle narrow, incrassate, obtuse above. Abdomen ovate, black, and covered with grey silky pile.

Hab . Port Natal.

This species is attached by its mandibles to the leg of a species of Pansus.