MCRTH AFRICA ; EGYPT (Hoogstraal 1952A. Garnham 1954,1955. 

 Hoogstraal and Kaiser 1956. Davis and Mavros 1956B. Schmidt and 

 Marx 1956). 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (King 1911,1915,1926. Archibald 1923. 

 Ruttledge 1930. Hoogstraal 1952A,195/kB. Hoogstraal and Kaiser 

 1956). 



ETHIOPIA (as Somaliland) (Neumann 1907B, 1911, 1922. Nuttall 

 et al 1908. Stella 1938A,1939A,1940). 



KENYA (Neave 1912. Cunliffe 19UB. Anderson 1924A. Warbur- 

 ton 1933. Walton 1950B. Garnham 195/^,1955. Heisch 195AF). 

 UGANDA (Hoogstraal and Kaiser 1956). 



SOUTHERN AFRICA ; OVAMBOLAND, SOUTHWEST AFRICA (Theiler, im- 

 published;. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA and BECHUANALAND (Bedford 1936) . 



HOSTS 



Available records indicate that in nat\are larvae feed on liz- 

 ards and on a number of mammals inhabiting dry caves, lairs, and 

 rock ledges. Nymphs and adults also attack lizards and almost any 

 mflTrnnnl that happens to stop near their retreat. Certain birds are 

 acceptable as larval hosts in the laboratory but birds have not 

 yet been found infested in nature. Larvae have been reared on 

 guinea pigs and nymphs and adults on white mice. 



Larvae 



Animals on which larval A. brumpti have actually been found 

 in nature are the following; 



Lizards; Agama colonorum in the Sudan (Ruttledge 1930). Uro- 

 mastix ocellatus and Agama a. spinosa in Southeastern Egypt (Hoog- 

 straal and Kaiser 195*^7 ScTiraidt and Marx 1956). Gerrhosaurus 

 yalidus in Transvaal (Bedford 1936). The gecko Tarentola a. annu - 

 laris in the Western Desert and in the Southeastern desert of Upper 

 Egypt. 



Rock hyraxes: Heterohyrax brucei hoogstraali (Equatoria Prov- 

 ince record above), Procavia sp. in Egypt (Hoogstraal 1952B), and 

 Procavia capensis biortoni in Southeastern Egypt (Hoogstraal and 

 Kaiser l^bT. 



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