Pheidole comata

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 176

15. Pheidole comata . B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 lines. - Fusco-ferruginous: the flagellum and legs pale rufo-testaceous. Head oblong-quadrate, deeply notched at the vertex, with a deep longitudinal channel extend- ing to the base of the clypeus; the head longitudinally reticu- late-striate, and enormously enlarged. Thorax narrowed behind, and armed with two short acute spines on the metathorax. Ab- domen ovate and very delicately reticulated, with a number of little raised points, on each of which is a long pale hair; the head, thorax and legs thinly covered with long pale hairs.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).