Polyrhachis peregrinus

Smith, F., 1860, Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. (Part Formicidae), Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 5, pp. 57-93 : 71

6. Polyrhachis peregrinus .

P. niger, pallide aureo-sericeo vestitus ; thorace spinis acutis antice et postice armato ; abdominis squamula spinis duabus longis acutis ad basin minute unispinulosis instructa.

Female. Length 4 lines. Black, and clothed with pale golden silky pubescence; anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; mandibles shining black ; the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax : the prothorax with two acute spines in front, which are directed outwards; the metathorax has two longer spines, also pointing obliquely outwards. Abdomen ovate ; the peduncle armed with two long, stout, slightly curved spines, which have at their base, within, a minute acute spine.

Hab. Makassar.

This species is easily distinguished by the minute spines within the long lateral ones.