APONQ^-IA LATUK (Koch, 1BU)(= A. LAEVS IlGur.ann, 1899, of authors), 



(Figures 100 to 103) 

 TIffi SNAKE TICK 



EQUATORIA PROVINCE RECORD, 



o 



■ 1 a j a melanoleuca Dec 



Naja hajn Dec 



Python rcgius Nov 



Dendrnaspis jo. polylepis Jan 



Bo and on 1. llnoatus Sep (CN!M) 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 



Equator la and Upper Nile: Without locality data (King 1926). 



Bahr El Ghazal ; GaluaL-Nyarig Forest, Naja haje , 1953, co]_ 

 lee ted by Tl Hoogstraal and R. E. Kuntz. Sana locality, from 

 "cobra", 1953, (SVS). Yirol, from "python", 195-^, E. T. M. ^eid 

 legit. Specimens in HH collection. 



Upper Nile ; Kenisa, Nasir, ajnd Er Renk, from cobras, 1909, 

 H. H. King Tegit (SGC). 



DISTRIBUTION 



The snake tick is distributed tlrroughout the Ethiopian Fauna]. 

 Region. 



WEST AFRICA ; NIGERIA (Hoogstraal 195AC). LIBERIA (Bequacrt 

 1930A7T FliE-NCH WEST AFRICA (Villiers 1955). SIER.RA LEONE (Entomo- 

 logical Report 1916). GOLD COAST (Curson 1916). PORTUGESE GUINEA 

 (Tendeiro 1951C ,D,1952C) . 



»Torit snake collections have been studied by Loveridge (1955)- 



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