even in areas that appear favorable. This tampan's predilection 

 for resting outdoors in the soil probably more closely confines 

 its apread to overland routes than does 0. moubata 's propensity 

 for hiding in goods or personal effects. 



NCRTH AFRICA ; EGYPT (Savigny 1826. Audouin 1827. Koch 

 1875. Brumpt 1908A. Neumann 1911. Yakoub 19/+5. Halauani 1946. 

 Davis 1947. Taylor and Htjrlbut 1953. Hoogstraal 1954A.. Davis 

 and Hoogstraal 1954. Theiler and Hoogstraal 1955. Taylor et 

 al 1955. Hurlbut 1956. Taylor, Work, Hurlbut, and Rizk 193SJ. 

 HBYA (Franchini 1927,1929A,E,1932B,1933A,B,C ,D,1934B,1935A,B,C , 

 1937,193SC. Zavattari 1930,1932,1933,1934. Tonelli-Rondelli 

 1930B,1932A,B,D,1935. Gaspare 1933,1934. Garibaldi 1935. Theiler 

 and Hoogstraal 1955). TUIHSIA, including He de Djerba (Weiss 

 1911B,1912. Galli-Valerio 191U. Nicolle, Blaizot, ard Conseil 

 1912,1913A,B. Absence in oases: Langeron 1921. Nicolle and 

 Anderson 1927. Colas-Belcour 1928, 1929A,G ,1930,1931). ALGERIA 

 (Chalon 1923. Catanei 1929). ^Apparently absent in Itorocco 

 (Brumpt 1936 )_.7 



WESr AFRICA ; NIGERIA (Northern Province only: Simpson 1912A. 

 Alcock 1915. Leeson 1953). FRE^K:H WEST AFRICA (Brumpt 1936. 

 Kone 1949. Rousselot 1951,1953B). /"Absent in Gold Coast: 

 Selvryn-Clark, Le Fanu, and Ingram (1923) and Corson and Ingram 

 (1923). Absent in Liberia: Bequaert (1930A)^7 



/"central AFRICA: No substantiated records. Not known from 

 Belgian Congo, but should be searched for there (Bequaert 1930A, 

 1931). 0. savignyi caecus listed by Schwetz (192X ) is a synonym 

 of 0. moubata . Leeson (1953) lists 0. savignyi , probably after 

 NuttalT"et al (1908) or Howard (190^ but these records are most 

 likely repeTItions of early misidentifications._7 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAI^ (Not Koch 1875 or Neumann I896, "'Upper 

 Nubia,'" cf . Eritrea. Donitz 1906. Brumpt 1908A. King 1908,1911, 

 1926. Neumann 1911. Balfour 1911E,1912. Brumpt 1936. Kirk 

 1938B,1939. H. W. Bedford 1939. Hoogstraal 1954B. Theiler and 

 Hoogstraal 1955). 



ETHIOPIA (Nuttall et al 1908. Neumann 1911,1922. Wenyon 

 1926. Bruns 1937 statements questionable). ERITFJEA (Koch 1875 



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