41 . Ponera grandis ^HNS. B.M.

Length 10 lines.-Black with a blue tinge: head subquadrate, eyes small; mandibles large, strongly dentate; thorax globose in front, compressed laterally in the middle; the node of the abdomen thick, compressed at the sides, rounded in front, and truncate posteriorly; the legs elongate, the anterior tarsi with rufescent pile beneath.

Ponera grandis, Guer. ^HNS Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 206 [[queen]],

Hab. Brazil.