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lack of an anteroventral gastric fungiform mass, the coloration and 
the extremely reduced pilosity. In the latter character this species 
belies its generic name even more than does C. flagellatus. 
The only other known African species, C. loveridgei , is close to 
tetragnathus . It is smaller, with a straight transverse occipital bor- 
der, a much more heavily sculptured head, and more dense pilosity. 
The three apical mandibular teeth are reduced in size and fused 
basally, much as in tetragnathus , and the anteroventral mass of spongi- 
form material on the first gastric sternite is reduced to a diffuse 
vestige. It is difficult to decide whether the dental heterogeniety of 
these species is homologous with that seen in the related genus 
Smithistruma , or whether it represents a convergently developed 
specialization. 
References 
Brown, W. L., Jr. 
1848. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymen- 
optera-Formicidae) . Trans. Amcr. Ent. Soc., 74: 101-129. 
1953. Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. Amer. Midi. 
Nat., 50: 1-137. 
