41. Myrmica pellucida ^HNS. B.M.

Worker. Length 1 1/2 line.-Head and thorax dark fusco-testaceous, antennas and legs much paler, nearly white; the thorax with its divisions distinctly marked, that between the meso- and metathorax most strongly impressed, the metathorax without spines. Abdomen of a clear, pale, semi-transparent colour.

Hab. Singapore. (Coll. A. R. Wallace.)

" House-Ant, very active, but not destructive."-Wallace.