6. Polyrhachis peregrinus ^HNS.

P. niger, pallide aureo-sericeo vestitus; thorace spinis acutis antice et postice armato; abdominis squamula spinis duabus longis acutis ad basin minute unispinulosis instructa.

Female. Length 4 lines. Black, and clothed with pale golden silky pubescence; anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; mandibles shining black; the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax: the prothorax with two acute spines in front, which are directed outwards; the metathorax has two longer spines, also pointing obliquely outwards. Abdomen ovate; the peduncle armed with two long, stout, slightly curved spines, which have at their base, within, a minute acute spine.

Hab. Makassar.

This species is easily distinguished by the minute spines within the long lateral ones.