Myrmecia tarsata

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 145

6. Myrmecia tarsata . B.M.

Worker. Length 8- 9 1/2 lines.-Black: the mandibles, antennae and tarsi pale reddish-yellow; abdomen smooth and shining black, with a greenish tint. Head longitudinally rugose; the prothorax with a divergent rugose striation, that on the meso- and metathorax coarse and transverse; on the first node of the petiole it is longitudinal; the three apical segments of the abdomen pale rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Australia (Hunter River, &c).