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 2. Physatta crinita . B.M. Female. Length 5 lines. Ferruginous: the disk of the thorax obscurely so; the abdomen deep fusco-ferruginous; the entire insect thinly covered with pale ferruginous pubescence. The head coarsely rugose; the mesothorax smooth in front, but with deep longitudinal striae towards the scutellum; the scutel- lum very prominent and roughly sculptured; the metathorax with two short stout spines; wings wanting. Abdomen subglo- bose, the base slightly emarginate. Hab . India (Madras). (Coll. Walter Elliott, Esq.)