145. Formica blanda ^HNS. B.M.

Worker. Length 2- 2 1/2 lines.-The head anteriorly, the antennae, thorax, legs, scale of the peduncle and base of the abdomen ferruginous, and thinly covered with a changeable silvery pile; the disk of the thorax and the head with a few scattered long pale hairs; the head wider than the thorax, the latter compressed posteriorly. Abdomen black, densely covered with pale golden pubescence, and sprinkled with long pale hairs; the scale of the peduncle incrassate, forming a small obtuse node.

Hab. Brazil (Santarem). (Coll. H. W. Bates.)