Ponera geometrica

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 86

14. Ponera geometrica .

Worker. Length 5 lines.-Black, with more or less of a bronze tint: head, thorax and base of the abdomen striated, the striae on the head longitudinal; the clypeus angulated in front; the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax rounded anteriorly, the disk with a number of transverse striae in front, which are enclosed by circular striae, beyond, the striation runs in an elongate-oval direction; the sides of the thorax obliquely striated; the legs obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen: the first segment with a beautiful even-curved striation; the node of the peduncle incrassate, rounded in front, truncate behind, the margin of the truncation deeply emarginate above, the lateral angles of the emargination produced into long stout acute spines; the node with a curved striation, the curve being forwards; the apical segments smooth and shining, covered with silky cinereous pubescence.

Hab. Singapore. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)