79. Formica camelina. B.M. Worker. Length 5 lines.-Black, elongate and slender; the head narrowed behind into a sort of neck; the eyes round, placed forwards at the sides of the head, nearly opposite the insertion of the antennae. Thorax much narrowed in front, compressed in the middle, with the metathorax swollen and elevated above the prothorax; the legs elongate and sprinkled with long pale hairs. Abdomen ovate, pointed at the apex, and sprinkled with pale glittering hairs; the scale of the peduncle incrassate, somewhat pear-shaped. Hab. Singapore.

Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 23