9. Ponera transversa ^HNS.

P. obscure rufo-fusca; thorace supra transverse rugoso; pedunculo margine supra emarginata.

Worker. Length 4 lines. Black: the head deeply striated, the striae on the vertex diverging from the centre; the antennae scarcely as long as the thorax, inserted at the side of two ridges at the base of the clypeus; the elevations, extreme base of the scape, and the mandibles, obscurely ferruginous. Thorax elongate, the sides straight, slightly narrowed from the front towards the abdomen; the margin of the thorax, in front, rounded, the lateral angles furnished with a short obtuse spine; the thorax is transversely striated its entire length; the verge of the oblique truncation at the apex with two very short obtuse spines; the legs ferruginous. Abdomen obscurely rufo-piceous, covered with a fine cinereous pile, and sprinkled with long pale hairs; the scale, when viewed sideways, is wedgeshaped, the upper edge deeply notched, and the scale transversely striated behind.

Hab. Singapore.