Formica pallida, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 57 (worker major).

Smith, F., 1860, Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. (Part Formicidae), Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 5, pp. 57-93 : 68

2. Formica pallida, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 57 (worker major).

The insect described in a former paper was the worker (major). The small worker, and also the female, have been received from Celebes. The female is of a blackish brown, with the flagellum, prothorax, scutellum, scale of the peduncle, legs, and sides of the thorax pale ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, with the nervures pale testaceous ; the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen pale ; the scale of the peduncle rounded above. The worker minor is pale ferruginous, with the head a little darker and the abdomen blackish brown ; the head a little wider than the thorax ; the thorax compressed, and very narrow behind.

Hab. Celebes; Sarawak.