Miscellaneous hosts of adults are buffalo (Lewis 1931C), 

 serval cat (Bedford 1936, Theiler 19A5C), mongoose (Theiler 19-^50), 

 and wild cat (Felis lybica group) (Hoogstraal, Kenya collecting). 

 The probability that Mettam's (1932) records of this species from 

 \inidentified birds refer to H. hoodi hoodi should be considered. 



Nymphs have been fotmd on the bushbuck, waterbiick, duiker, 

 buffalo, warthog, and hare according to Lewis (1932A), but these 

 records need checking for accuracy of identification. Lewis 

 (1932a) reared H. aciculife r on hares. Examination of A-9 Thom- 

 son's gazelles Tn Tanganyika yielded only a single nymph and no 

 further specimens of this tick were found on many other game 

 animals examined there (J. B. WaJJcer, unpublished). Our Equatoria 

 Province collections contain nymphs from a striped grassmouse, 

 Lemniscomys striatus massaicus , and from an oribi, Ourebia ourebi 

 aequatoria . 



A larva from a forest rat, Praeonys tullbergi sudanensis , in 

 Lotti Forest (listed above) is apparently the only record extant 

 for this stage in natiire. 



BIOLOGY 



Life Cycle 



Lewis (1932A) reared the three- host H. aciculifer on laboratory 



hares in a minimum of 107 days. His data7 are as follows: 



PHIIOD DAYS 



Preoviposition 9 (19°C. to 21°C.) 



Oviposition to hatching 20 (220C. to 25OC.) 



Larval prefeeding period 7 



Larva feeds 3 



Preraolting period 22 (21^0. to 2lpQ .) 



Nymphal prefeeding period 7 



Nymph feeds 3 



Premolting period 22 (21 C. to 25 C.) 



Adult prefeeding period 7 



Adult (female) feeds 7 



107 



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