Pseudomyrma pallida, Guérin-Ménéville, 1844

Smith, Frederick, 1855, Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates), Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2) 3, pp. 156-169 : 160

Sp. 9. Pseudomyrma pallida .

Worker.-Length 2 lines. Pale testaceous yellow, smooth, shining and impunctate ; the eyes and tips of the mandibles black; the thorax compressed at the sides, and somewhat narrowed posteriorly; the petiole of the first node of the abdomen pear-shaped, flattened above, and margined at the sides, the second node globular: the abdomen of a paler colour than the head, which is of a reddish yellow.

This species was found by my friend, the late Edward Doubleday , in East Florida, a locality in which lie captured many rare and beautiful Hymenoptera ; to this order he was greatly attached, and on the habit of many species he imparted much valuable information.