7. Tapinoma glabrata ^HNS. B.M.

Worker. Length 1 1/2 line.-Black, slightly shining: antenne, mandibles and tarsi pale ferruginous; scale of the abdomen oblong and depressed; abdomen oblong-ovate. The clypeus obscurely testaceous, the mandibles and flagellum rufo-testaceous, the apex of the latter slightly fuscous; the head, prothorax and coxae beneath, rufo-testaceous; the thorax inclining from the prothorax to the base of the metathorax, the latter convex above, the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the scale inclined forwards in a line with the oblique truncation of the metathorax; the insect entirely destitute of pubescence,

Hab. Malacca.