142. Formica vinosa ^HNS.

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Head and thorax red, claret-coloured, the legs and abdomen of a more obscure tint. Head much wider than the thorax, the prothorax rounded at the sides, the meso- and metathorax much narrower; legs elongate and slender; the node of the peduncle incrassate, rounded, thick and blunt above.

Hab. Brazil. (Coll. D. Swainson, Esq.)