14. Polyrhachis rufofemoratus ^HNS.

P. niger, laevis, nitidus; femoribus abdominisque squamula ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 3 1 / 2 lines. Black; head oblong; the eyes placed high at the sides near the vertex, the front very prominent, with two elevated carinae in the middle, at the outside of which the antennae are inserted. Thorax: the divisions strongly marked, flattened above with the sides elevated; the prothorax with an acute spine on each side anteriorly; the coxae and femora ferruginous, with the apex of the latter more or less fuscous. Abdomen: the base and the scale ferruginous, the latter angled at the sides and emarginate above.

Hab. Aru.