Physatta crinita

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 171-172

2. Physatta crinita . B.M.

Female. Length 5 lines. Ferruginous: the disk of the thorax obscurely so; the abdomen deep fusco-ferruginous; the entire insect thinly covered with pale ferruginous pubescence. The head coarsely rugose; the mesothorax smooth in front, but with deep longitudinal striae towards the scutellum; the scutel- lum very prominent and roughly sculptured; the metathorax with two short stout spines; wings wanting. Abdomen subglo- bose, the base slightly emarginate.

Hab. India (Madras). (Coll. Walter Elliott, Esq.)