RHIPICEPHALUS ?SP. 

 (not illustrated) 



L N 5 6^ EQUATORIA PP.OVDrcE RECORDS 



n 17 Imtonp Ileterohyrax bnicei hoorstraali Feb 



1 ■ 1 lOTxrok Heteroh:/rax brucei hoof:straalx Feb 



RH-IARKS 



These n:,Tr.phs were ori-inally identified as those of R. 

 n&aensi (Hoor.straal 195Ab1. Subsequent study ofthe difficult 

 ^i^of iml^ature rMpicephalid identification xndxcates that 

 thev are of a different species and most closely resemble R. 

 naculatus Neimann, 1901, (Theiler, correspondence) an ornamented 

 spe^es f rom southeastern Africa that is not known from the 

 Sudan. 



Note (pa-e 63?) that it is quite possible that these spec- 

 imens are tL''immature stages of the species referred to herein 

 as R. ?distinctus. 



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