127. Formica consectator ^HNS. B.M.

Female. Length 5 lines.-Black, smooth and shining. Head oblong, not wider than the thorax; the anterior margin of the clypeus entire; the mandibles strongly punctured, and ferruginous at their apex; the antennae and legs pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax ovate. Abdomen ovate; the node of the peduncle subovate, its superior margin entire.

Hab. Australia.