6. Pachycondyla piliventris ^HNS. B.M.

Worker. Length 6 lines.-Black: head oblong and rugose; the mandibles and antennae obscurely ferruginous. Thorax of the same form as in P. crassinoda ^HNS, rugose and obliquely truncated posteriorly; legs obscurely fusco-ferruginous, the apex of the joints brighter. Abdomen: the posterior margin of the node of the peduncle not serrated; the first and second segments grooved as in P. crassinoda ^HNS, but less coarsely so; the apical segments rufo-testaceous; the abdomen covered with rather long pubesence, most dense at the apex.

Hab. Australia (Adelaide).