53. Ponera pallipes ^HNS. B.M.

Female. Length 6 lines.-Black: covered with a fine silky cinereous pile and scattered pale hairs; the mandibles ferruginous, the anterior margin of the face obscurely so; the antennae dark rufo-piceous; the legs pale ferruginous; the wings flavohyaline, the nervures pale testaceous; the mandibles porrect, slightly curved downwards, with their inner margin serrated; the anterior margin of the face angular, with short striae, particularly the central portion, the central point blunt. Abdomen elongate; a slight strangulation between the first and second segments; the node of the peduncle incrassate, rounded above, truncate before and behind.

Hab. Brazil (Para).