of this tick more accxjrate data concerning its hosts and biology 

 are boiond to resiilt. Hosts of the iimnature stages are unknown, 

 except for a single njinph (J. B. Walker, correspondence) from an 

 African civet in Tanganyika. 



Domestic animals ; Cattle (Svidan and Walker's Kenya records, 

 above;. Dog (Santos Dias 1953B). 



Wild animals ; Bushbuck and giraffe (Zumpt 19A3B). Roan 

 antelope (Zumpt 194-3B, Hoogstraal 195AC). Nyasaland warthog 

 (Theiler 19Ul) . Buffalo, nyala, and South African bushbuck 

 (Santos Dias 1950B,1953B) . Impala, sable antelope, suni ante- 

 lope, reedbuck, greater kudu. Cape duiker, Zambesi eland, wart^ 

 hog, and buffalo (Santos Dias 1953B). Kudu (Walker's Kenya 

 record above) . 



Theiler 's (unpublished) host records (number of hosts, if 

 more than one, indicated in parenthesis) are; from Mkuzi Game 

 Reserve, Zululand, impala, nyala bushbuck (3), reedbuck (2), 

 dviiker iU) , steenbuck, warthog, and bushpig; from Ubombo Flats, 

 Natal, nyala bushbuck. In Miss Walker's collections (corres- 

 pondence) from large nvunbers of game animals from Tanganyika, 

 19 males from two buffalo s are represented. 



BIOLOGY 



This species is now being reared at Onderstepoort (Theiler, 

 correspondence) . 



DISEASE RELATIONS 

 Unstudied. 



RMARKS 



The Sudan material recorded above was compared by Dr. G. 

 Theiler with type material in Dr. F. Zumpt 's collection. 



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