82. Formica pilosa ^HNS.

Worker. Length 3 lines.-Black, densely covered with a fine silky cinereous pile. Head much wider than the thorax; eyes ovate, placed laterally rather high on the head; the anterior part of the clypeus truncate, the sides of the face produced beyond its anterior margin; a shallow fovea on the front. Thorax compressed behind. Abdomen ovate, covered with short pale pubescence; the scale of the peduncle incrassate, terminating in a blunt point above.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)