D-gCRTED SPECIMENS ; Records in the literature for EGYPT 

 (Guerin-Meneville lSi9-l8A3 ) , one of the type localities of synoiu 

 ymous Ixodes elegans ) shovild be discoiinted. Althoiigh A. variega - 

 tum frequently arrives at the Cairo abattoir on cattle^from the 

 Sudan and from other areas of East Africa, the species has never 

 become established here (Hoogstraal 1952A). Extremely few fei- 

 males are foiond by the time cattle reach Cairo. 



A. variegatum has becorie established and is a serious problem 

 in the VEST INDIES (St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Antigua). As early as 

 1895, Barber vfrote an account, both pleasant and critical, of the 

 ravages of '"the gold tick?*, A. variegatxm (= Hyalomma venustxim ) 

 in Antigua. See also; Neumann (1899,1911), Ticks in the West 

 Indies (19U), Ford (1919), Saunders (19UA,B, 1915,1919), Senevet 

 (1938), and Mauze and ^bntigny (195^). It appears that A. varia - 

 gatum has been found in GUATEMALA (Neumann 1899,1911), but there 

 have been no subsequent reports of its presence there. There has 

 been some question about West Indies records among American work- 

 ers who have not visited these islands. Numerous specimens from 

 West Indies may be seen in British Museum (Natural History) col- 

 lections. 



Three males are stated to have been found on a dog in south- 

 western FRANCE (Lamontellerie 195A). 



MISCELLANEOUS ; The distributional map of Tendeiro (19A7) 

 which includes Egypt and Sinai and omits the Sudan and parts of 

 Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Somalilands, should be modified. 



TUNIS has been listed as a collecting locality based on spec- 

 imens labelled from a hedgehog on Djerba Island collected by A. 

 Weiss (Galli-Valerio 1911A) . Colas-Belcour and Rage au (l95l), 

 with ample reason, consider this record doubtftil. It may be based 

 on misidentification of an immature Hyalomma sp. 



HOSTS 



Where it occurs, A. variegatum is often the most common tick 

 on cattle. Its incidence on other domestic animals varies locally 

 but is usually less than on cattle. Among wild animals, the buf- 

 falo and niimerous kinds of antelopes are important hosts. Other 



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