ORNITHODOROS (ORI'lITHODOROS ) MOUBATA (Murray, 1877). 

 (Figures 39 to 62) 

 THE EfELESS TAMPAN* 



L N 2 c? EQUATORIA PROVINCE RECORDS 



2 1 Liria African hut Nov 



3 11 Ward Mika ? Nov 



Without locality data (King 1911,1926. Maurice 1932. Kirk 

 1939) . Maurice (1932) stated that in connection with the 1925 

 relapsing fever outbreak, 0. inoubata had been found in "foiir 

 Equatoria Province rest houses north of Minule" . 



The only eyeless tampans in Sudan Government collections are 

 a few specimens from Wani Mika, collected by J. Dervish, 3 Novenu 

 ber 1925. 



The three specimens collected from a hut at Liria in Novenu 

 ber of 1949 are the only ones that I have been able to find in 

 the Sudan. A search of this and other Liria huts during January 

 of 1952 failed to reveal additional material. Dviring the same 

 trip, preserved specimens were extensively exhibited to residents 

 of many villages on the Juba_Torit_Tarangore track, and at Katire, 

 Gilo, Yei, and Kajo Kaji. Although some persons who saw them 

 professed to know the whereabouts of similar "dood " , no tampans 

 could be found. 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 



Bahr El Ghazal ; From warthog burrows on Guar-Galual road 

 near Guar,'75ogrial Subdistrict, Tonj District, April, 1953, col- 

 lected by E. T. M. Reid and P. Blasdale. Three burrows examined 

 yielded one nymph in the first, two males and nine nymphs in the 

 second, and two males and thirteen nymphs in the third. Mr. 

 Thomas W. Chorley and the collectors are to be congratulated for 



*In South Africa, called "The Hut Tampan" (Theiler 1952A,B). 



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