EQUATOR I A PROVINCE 

 REPTILIA* 



OPHIDIA (SNAKES) 



rJAJA KSLAMOLEUCA Hallowell. Black Cobra. 



NAJii HAJS Linne. Egyptian Cobra. 



PYTHOTTeGIUS Shaw. Regal Pj-thon. 



DEI-nJROASPtS P. POLYLSPIS (Guenther). Black Manba. 



BOASDON L. LImSATUS Diuneril and Bibron. Coranon House Snake. 



Small niLTibers of adults of the snake tick, Aponomma laturn, 

 were found on individual hosts of the above species; n;yTDphs were 

 also found on the black cobra. All specimens were taken during 

 the dry season at Torit except that from Boaedon, which was co]— 

 lected during the rainy season at Katire In the forested Inatong 

 Mountains. These hosts are all large, poisonous snakes. Numerous 

 specinens of the same and smaller snakes examined in Torit and 

 other Districts of Equatoria were free of ticks. Ticks are usual- 

 ly found between the host's dorsal scales, especially just behind 

 the neck, sometimes on the head, rarely on the venter. In excep- 

 tional instances, the host may be literally covered with ticks of 

 this species. 



LACSRTILIA (LIZARDS) 

 VARANUS N. NILOTICUS Laurenti. Nilotic Monitor or Waran. 



^Reptiles were identified by Dr. K. P. Schmidt, Emeritus Chief 

 Curator of Zoology, CMcago Natiu'al History Museum. Information 

 on the same and other reptiles mentioned in the text was kindly 

 given by Mr. A. Loveridge, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 

 University, who has published a paper on snakes of Torit District 

 (Svidaii Notes and Records, 1955). 



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