in Egypt), pangolin (Howard 1908), zebra in Soraaliland (Stella 

 1939B), baboon (Sudan records above), bushbaby (Villiers 1955 in 

 French West Africa and Sudan record above), okapi in the Congo 

 (Bequaert 193 OA) . 



Tortoise (iSnitz 191 OB, Neiimann 1911). If these remarks 

 refer to the record of Michael (1899) from Lake Urmi, Iran, they 

 are probably based on misidentification of H. aegyptium . 



Laboratory Hosts 



See life cycle below. 



Commensal Rodent Hosts 



In our field work in various parts of the tropics and sub- 

 tropics of the world few commensal rodents have been found to be 

 attacked by immature stages of the kennel tick. In two areas of 

 Puerto Rico, Fox (1950) reported an infestation rate of only 0.5 

 and 3.2 percent on 1326 Rattus examined. 



Wild SmalL-Mammal Hosts 



Pearse (1929) collected specimens from the following animals 

 in Nigeria: two species of hedgehogs, and four rodents ( Lemnis- 

 comys striatus , TateriUus gracilis angelus , Thryrononys 

 swinderianus , and Praomys tnHbergi ). The identifier and the 

 stage of the ticks were not stated. These are most interesting 

 data that few others have duplicated. In Timisia, the grondi 

 (Rodentia: Ctenodactylus gundi ) is said to be frequently attacked 

 by larvae and nymphs (Chatton and Blanc 1918). 



The several unusual small mammal hosts found infested in 

 Bquatoria Province (listed above) were all taken in association 

 with native villages. The elephant shrew, Elephantulus rufescens 

 hoogstraali , was caught in an island of dense shrub and tree 

 vegetation, among which shepherds and their animals so^lght refuge 

 from the glaring sun, in the grasslands near a village. The bush- 

 baby. Gal ago s. senegalensis , lived in a fig tree under which 

 the village elders and their dogs congregated. The two infested 

 tree squirrels, Heliosciurus gambianus hoogstraali , were feeding 



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