Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. Author Smith, F. text 1858 British Museum London http://antbase.org/ants/publications/8127/8127.pdf book 8127 C86CFDBF-61D9-48EE-9C2E-325FC0462B10 50. Ponera carbonaria . Worker. Length 4 1/2 lines.-Jet-black, shining and impunctate: mandibles obscurely ferruginous, with seven or eight strong teeth on their inner margin; the head, thorax and abdomen with a thin short yellowish pubescence; the tip of the antennae ferruginous. Thorax elongate, narrowed posteriorly, the apex obliquely truncated; the calcaria and claw-joint of the tarsi rufotestaceous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, vertical in front and obliquely curved behind; the extreme apex of the abdomen rufo-testaceous. Hab. South America (Quito). (Coll. F. Smith.) This species resembles P. inversa , particularly in the form of the node of the peduncle; but the latter species has the head striated, the thorax punctured, the prothorax flattened above, and the legs and base of the abdomen more or less ferruginous.