Polyrhachis cuspidatus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 66

28. Polyrhachis cuspidatus .

Worker. Length 2 lines.-Black: the head subovate; the base of the scape, the apex of the flagellum and the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax slightly compressed, the prothorax with an elevation in the middle which terminates above in two divergent spines, there is also a similar elevation terminating in a spine on each side of the metathorax; the coxae, femora and apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous at the base, the scale of the peduncle quadrate, deeply notched above.

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