Formica Taprobane

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 13

43. Formica Taprobane . B.M.

Female. Length 2 lines.-Head, antennae, thorax and legs red; abdomen black. Head subovate, the front convex, finely roughened and semi-opake, very slightly emarginate behind. The thorax rugose, the scutellum and metathorax coarsely so; the wings hyaline, the stigma large and brown, the nervures pale testaceous; the anterior pair with one discoidal cell; the tarsi pale testaceous, the claw-joint black. Abdomen black, shining, and globose.

Hab. Ceylon.

This may possibly be the F. abdominalis of Latreille, but as the neuration of the wings cannot be determined from his description, their identity is uncertain.