Pseudomyrma elegans, Guérin-Ménéville, 1844

Smith, Frederick, 1855, Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates), Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2) 3, pp. 156-169 : 159

Sp. 6. Pseudomyrma elegans .

Worker.-Length 3 lines. The head and abdomen black ; the scape in front, the base of the flagellum, the anterior margin of the face and the mandibles, ferruginous: the thorax, legs and nodes of the abdomen, ferruginous ; the apical joints of the tarsi slightly fuscous ; the entire insect destitute of pubescence.

This species was captured by Mr. Bates, at Para. In my own Collection.