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to forage. We should expect, therefore, to find them very rarely or 
not at all in the inclusions. 
Mayr was of the opinion that C. menget is very n early allied to 
the reoent C. maculatus sylvaticus Olivier of Southern Europe, but 
the resemblance between these two forms does not strike me as being 
very close. The amber species does not have the habitus of the 
maculatus group in the shape of the head, which, in the largest 
workers I have seen, is subrectangular with feebly rounded sides and 
posterior border, and the clypeus is very feebly carinate and has 
a very short lobe with rounded corners. It also lacks the rows of 
graduated, oblique bristles on the flexor surfaces of the middle and 
hind tibiae, a negative character which would, according to the present 
arrangement of the subspecies of C. maculatus, remove it from the 
sylvaticus group and ally it more closely with the subspecies atlantis 
Forel, allii Forel and türkest anicus Emery. But it can hardly be 
said to resemble these forms at all closely in other respects, and 
should, in my opinion, be regarded as a much more primitive and 
generalized species than maculatus sens. lat. 
