86 



ORIGINAL DETERMINATION 



CURRENT STATUS 



155 



Argas persicus 



Crevices in mud wall of hen 

 roost at the Grand Hotel , 

 Khartoum 



Received 24»XM906 



Mr. H. H. King & Dr. A. Balfour 



Received from Dr. A. Balfour, 

 Wellcome Research Laboratories, 

 Gordon Memorial College, 

 Khartoum, who states that these 

 ticks are associated with a 

 deadly spirochaetosis in fowls 

 which occurred in fowls imported 

 from Genoa, Italy, similar to 

 the disease in Brazil (Marchoux 

 & Salimbeni). "I am sending 

 you nymphs, adults & casts, etc., 

 which "infested these fowls." 

 These were collected by Mr. H. H. 

 King, our Entomologist & 

 Dr. Balfour from crevices in the 

 mud wall of the hen roost at the 

 Grand Hotel, Khartoum. 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 Prof. G. H. Carpenter, Royal 

 College Science, Dublin 19-1.1910. 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith, Medical 

 School, Cambridge 19-1.1910. 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 E. E. Green (F.E.S.) Govt. 

 Entomologist, Ceylon 19-I-1910. 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 Dschunkowsky Transcaucasus 19-1 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 Dr. Edmund Sergent, Algeria 

 N. Africa 19.IV.1910. 

 Some (sex/stage not stated) to 

 Dr. H. deB. AragSo, Brazil 23-1 



N 

 RML 



1910 



155 

 104760 



5 N Argas persicus 



Crevices in mud wall of hen roost 

 at the Grand Hotel , Khartoum 

 (15.36 N, 32.32 E), Sudan 



Received 11-1907 



Mr. H. H. King & Dr. A. Balfour 



The date given above is from vial 

 label which disagrees with catalogue. 

 The reference is to Marchoux & 

 Salimbeni (1903). 

 There is one additional cast skin 

 in this collection. 



1910 



