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Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. (Part Formicidae)

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2. Formica pallida,

Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 57 (worker major).

The insect described in a former paper was the worker (major). The small worker, and also the female, have been received from Celebes. The female is of a blackish brown, with the flagellum, prothorax, scutellum, scale of the peduncle, legs, and sides of the thorax pale ferruginous; the wings hyaline, with the nervures pale testaceous; the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen pale; the scale of the peduncle rounded above. The worker minor is pale ferruginous, with the head a little darker and the abdomen blackish brown; the head a little wider than the thorax; the thorax compressed, and very narrow behind.

Hab. Celebes; Sarawak.

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Published as part of Smith, F., 1860, Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. (Part Formicidae), pp. 57-93 in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 5 on page 68

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