Ponera transversa

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 86-87

15. Ponera transversa . B.M.

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, forwards on the face 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 rounded in front, the lateral angles furnished with a short obtuse spine, there are also two very short obtuse spines on the verge of the oblique truncation of the metathorax; the legs ferruginous. Abdomen obscurely rufo-piceous, covered with fine cinereous pile, and sprinkled with long pale hairs; the scale, viewed sideways, is wedge-shaped, the upper edge deeply notched, behind transversely striated.

Hab. Singapore.