46. Myrmica agilis ^HNS.

Worker. Length 1 line.-Head and thorax pale ferruginous; abdomen black, with the base pale, very smooth and shining; the flagellum clavate, the club 3-jointed, the basal joint of the flagellum as long as the three following; the metathorax with two minute spines. Abdomen ovate, the first node of the peduncle elongate, the second subglobose.

Hab . Malacca. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)