LAGCMORPHA (HARES and RABBITS) 



FA14ILY LEPORIDAE 



POELAGUS KiARJORITA OWMI Setzer, 1956. Owen's Grass Rabbit (or Hare) 



A number of specimens of this strange and highly localized 

 grass rabbit from the Katire area were free of ticks but two 

 individuals taken during the rainy season at Magwe yielded a 

 male and female R. pravus and 31 exceptionally heavily punctate 

 adult R. s. sanguineus . 



LEPUS GAPEt^^SIS CRAWSHAyi DeWinton, 1899. Crawshay«s Hare. 



Ticks from these hares at Ikoto included a nymph of R. s. 

 simus ,ten female R. arnoldi , nineteen adult R. pravus and a male 

 H. leachii rauhsam. A hare from Nagichot, a^ 65OO feet elevation 

 Tn the Didinga Mountains, bore two female R. _s. sanguineus ♦ These 

 hares are common in elevations somewhat above the average of the 

 plains of Torit District. 



LEPUS VIGTORIAE MICRCTIS Heuglin, IS65. Victoria Hare. 



Victoria hares, frequently tick infested, are common in the 

 savannah from Torit to Juba. The only inmature tick found was a 

 nymph of R. s. simus at Torit during the dry season. Many were 

 attacked by moderate numbers of adults of R. s. sanguineus , fewer 

 by R. pravus , and one by Ixodes rasus ? subspecies. 



LEPUS GAPENSIS SUBSP. 



Several Kapoeta specimens of this yet unidentified hare were 

 3ted by all st! 

 variegatum and one 



LEPUS SP. 



infested by all stages of R. pravus and by two nymphs of A. 

 )ne female H. leachii inuhsami. 



Hosts from various sources were infested by adult R. s. 



sangiuneus . 



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