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 36. Polyrhachis constructor . Pl. IV. fig. 23. Female. Length 4 1/4 lines.-Black: head and thorax opake; legs and abdomen shining. Thorax ovate, the prothorax slightly produced laterally, forming a small tubercle, the metathorax with two short, stout, erect teeth, or spines; wings subhyaline, the nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, with three short, stout, acute spines. Abdomen subglobose. Hab. Sarawak. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)