3. Ponera parallela ^HNS.

P. nigra, opaca; antennis, mandibulis, pedibus abdominisque apice ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 3 1 / 4 lines. Opake black; the antennae thick and scarcely as long as the thorax, their apex and the mandibles bright ferruginous; the legs somewhat obscure ferruginous, with the articulations much brighter; the head a little wider than the thorax and subovate; the thorax, node of the petiole, and the abdomen of nearly equal width, the abdomen being slightly the widest; the node of the petiole nearly quadrate; the apical margin of the first segment and base of the second slightly depressed.

Hab. Aru.