Polyrhachis consimilis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 73

50. Polyrhachis consimilis . Pl. IV. figs. 30,31. B.M.

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Black: the abdomen covered with golden pubescence. Head and thorax opake, finely rugose. Thorax armed anteriorly with two stout, bent, acute spines; the metathorax with two long, slender, acute spines directed backwards; the divisions of the parts of the thorax strongly marked, the disk slightly convex, the lateral margins forming sharp carinae. Abdomen subglobose, the scale of the peduncle incrassate, somewhat oblong, with two long, curved, acute spines directed backwards.

Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Rev. D. F. Morgan.)

This species resembles the P. Ammon, but differs in having longer spines in front of the thorax, and also in having the spines on the metathorax much longer and more slender.