Polyrhachis mutiliae

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 39

9. Polyrhachis mutiliae .

P. niger; capite thoraceque cinereo-sericeo vestitis; abdomine pallide-aureo tectis; thorace spinis acutis duabus antice et postice armato; squama spinis duabus longis curvatis.

Worker. Length 2 1 / 2 lines. Black, the head and thorax with a thin silky cinereous pile, that on the abdomen of a pale golden hue, the antennae and legs black without pile, and slightly shining. Thorax convex above, the anterior spines short, slender and acute; the metathoracic spines rather longer but equally slender and acute; the node of the peduncle with two long spines which are curved to the shape of the base of the abdomen; the latter globose. The thorax flattened transversely, but curved longitudinally. (Pl. I. fig. 7, and fig. 15 var.?)

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).