2. Echinopla pallipes ^HNS.

E. nigra, hispida; oculis protninentibus; abdomine globoso; squama in utroqne latere spina horizontali; pedibus pallide testaceis.

Worker. Length 21/2 lines. Black, rugose; the abdomen vermiculate, interpersed with slight elevations placed in great regularity over the entire upper surface, each elevation terminating in a hair; the scape and the mandibles ferruginous; the eyes very prominent; the palpi and legs pale testaceous, with the tarsi rufo-piceous; the peduncle transverse, produced on each side into a short horizontal spine; the abdomen rufo-piceous.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

It is very difficult to describe the sculpturing of this insect; on the head it is strongest; the species strongly resembles E. melanarctos ^HNS, but the elevations are shorter, as well as the hairs at their apex.