2. Myrmicaria vidua ^HNS.

Male. Length 6 lines.-Brown-black, pubescent: antennae reaching to the apex of the first node of the peduncle; mouth reddish-brown. Head rugose; the thorax longitudinally rugose on the disk; wings hyaline at the base, tinged with brown towards their apex; the nodes of the abdomen finely roughened, with a longitudinal narrow smooth line; the abdomen heartshaped, smooth and shining, the head and thorax opake.

Hab. Java. (Coll. East India House.)

This species differs from M. brunnea ^HNS in the coarser sculpture of the thorax; the nodes of the abdomen are much broader, and are also roughened and very pubescent,