Pseudomyrma sericata, Guérin-Ménéville, 1844

Smith, Frederick, 1855, Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates), Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2) 3, pp. 156-169 : 159

Sp. 5. Pseudomyrma sericata .

Worker.-Length 3.5 lines. Black, thickly covered with fine short silky pubescence ; the anterior margin of the face and the mandibles testaceous-yellow ; the antennae rufo-testaceous, the flagellum sometimes slightly fuscous above ; the legs testaceous , the anterior tibise and tarsi pale : the prothorax and margins of the scutellum rufo-testaceous ; the petiole of the abdomen is of the same colour as the prothorax.

This species is also from Brazil. In my own Collection.