BUXHIUS ERYTHROPUS LEUCOIMBRINTJS (RuppeU, 1835). Light- sided 

 Croimd SquirreTT 



All stages of the specific parasite of ground squirrels, H, 

 houyi , infest a good proportion of these common animals on the"" 

 east bank of Equatoria Province. Specimens were taken during 

 the dry season at Kapoeta, Torit, and Latome. Six nymphs of A. 

 variegatiun were also found on a groimd squirrel at Torit. " 



EUXHIUS ERYTHROPUS 7LACUSTRIS (Thomas, 1905). 



A specimen examined at Yei was infested by a nymph and a 

 male H. houyi . 



FAMILY CRICETIDAE 



TATERA BENVaroTA BENVBTOTA (Hinton and Kershaw, 1920). Benvenuta 

 Tatera. 



Tatera gerbils, although numerous in the Torit vicinity, 

 yielded only fifteen nymphs of R. s. simus and two of H. 1. 

 ? leachii . Two burrows of these^animals yielded eleven~nyTttphs , 

 four females, and five males of the former species. The adult 

 ticks were unengorged. 



TATERILLUS MINI EMINI (Thomas, 1892). Einin's Lesser Tatera. 



These are about as common as the Benvenuta Tatera but no 

 ticks were found on them. Approximately a hundred of each of 

 these tateras were examined. 



FAMILY MURIDAE 



GRAMMCMYS MACMILLANI EHYTHROPYGUS Setzer, 1956. Red_rumped 

 Arboreal Rat. 



Upwards of seventy arboreal rats examined in and around Torit 

 were not infested, however, a nymph tentatively identified as A. 

 cohaerens was taken on a host at Obbo. " 



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