CENTRAL AFRICA ; CA!-ER00N3 (Raceau 1953A,D). FF.ENCH EQUATORIAL 

 AFRICA (Fiasson 19^3B). BSLGIAI\f CONGO (Neunann 1899,1911. Nuttall 

 and Warburton 1916. Schwetz 192X,1932. Bequaert 1930A,193l). 



NOTE: According to Theiler (correspondence), the record for 

 Ruanda-Urundi by Santos Dias (195^0) is in error. 



EASr AFRICA ; SUDAN (King 1908,1911,1926. Hoogstraal 1954^). 



ETHIOPIA (Tonelli-Rondelli 1930A. Stella 19U0). 



KENYA (Lewis 19310,1934. Loveridge 1936B. Hoorstraal 1954E). 

 UGANDA (Theiler 1945B. Wilson 1950C. Hoogstraal 195AE). TANGA- 

 NYIKA (Neumann 190X,1910B,1911. Donitz 1910. Horstatt 1913. 

 Loveridge 1923C,1928. Bequaert 1930A). 



SOUTHERN AFRICA ; AI^JGOLA (Howard 1903. Bacelar 1950). !IOZA.^L 

 BIQUE (Howard 1908. Santos Dias 194aA,1952D,1953B. Bacelar 1950). 



NORTHERN RHODESIA (Theiler 1945B) . SOUTHERN RHODESIA (Jack 

 1942). NYASALAl© (Theiler 1945B. Wilson 1950B). 



SOUTHWEST AFRICA (Warburton 1922. Theiler 1945B). WllOil OF 

 SOUTH AFRICA (Koch 13/'^/^. Neumann 1901. Howard 1903. Donitz 1910B. 

 Curson 1928. Bedford 19328,1936. Schulze 1936E. Theiler 1945B. 

 Hoogstraal 1954C). 



HOSTS 



Snakes, without predilection for any one group (Theiler 1945B) . 

 Host genera recorded by various authors are: Python , Simocephalus , 

 Pseud aspis , Naja , Lycophidion (= Lycophidium ), Meh^lya , Scpedon , 

 Dendroaspis (= Dendr aspi s ) ,' ~Causus , Bitis, Dasypeltis , Boaedon, 

 and Rhajnphiophis . Also the Debasian snake Crotaphopeltis (= Leptodira ) 

 hotamboeia (Neujnann 190X,1910B). In addition to some of these same 

 host genera, 14135 J. B. Walker's (correspondence) Tanganyika collec- 

 tions contain specimens from Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus ro stratus . 

 Philothamnus i. irregularis (= Chloropis emini j (Hoogstraal 1954C-). 

 fbst host records are for large, poisonous snakes, possibly because 

 of the great interest they always arouse when collected. Yet I 

 have examined hundreds of smaller African snakes without finding 

 Aponomma ticks on them. 



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