Myrmosida paradoxa, Smith, 1857

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 88

1. Myrmosida paradoxa .

M. nigra; capite thoraceque rude rugosis; alis subhyalinis; abdomine basi binodoso. •

Male. Length 4 lines. Black; head nearly as wide as the thorax, coarsely rugose, across the face between the eyes are some deep transverse grooves; the face with two longitudinal carinae, outside of which the antennae are inserted; the scape short and thick, the flagellum nearly of equal thickness throughout, pointed at the apex, the extreme tip pale testaceous; mandibles ferruginous at their apex; the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax: coarsely rugose; wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous, stigma dark brown; the anterior tarsi ferruginous, with a dense glittering pale pubescence beneath; the base of the femora, knees and apex of the tibiae and apical joints of the tarsi, ferruginous; the calcaria pale rufo-testaceous. The abdominal nodes coarsely longitudinally rugose; the abdomen smooth and shining, the second and following segments punctured, with their apical margins impunctate.

Hab. Singapore.

Only one specimen of this very singular insect has been captured, and is in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq.