Ponera Caffraria

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 91

31. Ponera Caffraria . B.M.

Female. Length 4 lines.-Black: head rather wider than the thorax, oblong, with the eyes placed forwards on the sides, opposite to the insertion of the antennae, behind emarginate, the posterior angles rounded; the mandibles and apex of the antennae ferruginous. Thorax oblong-ovate, about the same length as the head, measuring to the tip of the mandibles; the wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures testaceous; the legs fuscoferruginous, sometimes clear ferruginous. Abdomen ovate, about the same width as the head, the apex pale rufo-testaceous; the node of the peduncle compressed, the superior margin rounded; very similar to the scale of a Formica , being flattened, but broadest at the base.

Hab. Port Natal.