Worker. Length 6 lines.-Closely resembling P. rufipes , the mandibles, legs and antenna; being red; the thorax and head similarly sculptured; the metathorax truncate, the margin of the truncation with a stout curved spine on each side; the node of the peduncle has its posterior margin denticulate, with a longer tooth at the lateral angles and a tooth beneath; the first and second segments of the abdomen longitudinally grooved; the apical segments rufo-testaceous.
Hab. Australia? (Coll. F. Smith.)
