Formica diligens

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 22

74. Formica diligens ,

Female. Length 9 lines.-Dark rufo-piceous; the antennae, mandibles, thorax at the sides and beneath, the metathorax and legs ferruginous. In form closely resembling Formica ligniperda ; the head shining; the antennae, the anterior margin of the face and clypeus, and the mandibles ferruginous. The wings subhyaline, the nervures and tegulae pale ferruginous. Abdomen shining, pale ferruginous beneath; the scale of the peduncle subquadrate, slightly emarginate its entire width above.

Hab. Malacca. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)