Santos Dias (1953E) fiirther refers the Belgian Congo records 

 of A. pomposujn by Nuttall and Waxburton (I9l6), Schwetz (1927A), 

 Bequaert (1931) and Schoenaers (1951A) to A. superbvim . Since no 

 adequate descriptions for differentiating Congo specimens were 

 provided by these authors, the validity of this proposed synonymy 

 is highly questionable. Belgian Congo specimens that have been 

 seen in British Museum (Natural History) collections, in Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology collections, and in the HH collection are 

 typically A. pomposum by comparison with specimens from everywhere 

 within the''range of this species. 



In conclusion, one may only belabor the point: the status 

 of heavily punctate specimens morphologically intermediate between 

 A, yariegatum and A. pomposum remains to be ascertsiined by bio- 

 Togical studies, not oy museum-type studies. 



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