1636 



ORIGINAL DETERMINATION 



3845 



Rhipicephalus ayrei 4 cf, 2 ? 

 CO-TYPES 



Buffalo (abdomen) 



Mount Kenya, Kenya Colony 



28.x. 1930 



E. A. Lewis, Vet Lab., Kabete 

 (His No. 23) Donor 



E.A.L. & C.W. det. 



See paper by Lewis, Parasitology 

 vol. 25 p. 269, figs. (1933). 



See also Report p. 129. 





CURRENT STATUS 



N 



3845 



RML 



113229 





4 d", 2 ? Rhipicephalus compositus 

 Syn types of R. ayrei 





Syncerus caffer 





Mount Kenya (00.10 S, 37.20 E), 

 Kenya 





28.x. 1930 





E. A. Lewis 



9 vulva mounted on a slide 



Lewis (1933: 269) original 

 description. Cited: Santos Dias 

 (1958: 473) who gave the total 

 number of ticks in this collection 

 as 3 cr, 1 ?. 



No's 3846-3852 were sent 22. VII. 1932 by Dr. Charles Searle, Maragua P.O. 

 Nanyuki, Kenya Colony, stating he had 2 cases of typhus on a farm (Maragua) 

 among Europeans. The ticks from dogs in close contact with the cases, 

 sleeping in their beds. Some of the cattle healthy. 18 cases of typhus 

 among Europeans with 1 death. Typhus apparently only in game district where 

 all kind of game abound. Note some ticks rotten, rotten everts i had black 

 leqs:- 



3846 N 



Boophilus decoloratus (f's, ?'s, N's 



Cattle 



Maragua, Kenya Colony 



21-22. VII. 1932 



Dr. C. Searle coll. & gift 

 Lots 1 & 2 combined 



C. W. det. 



3846 given to D. S. MacLagan 

 14/10/38. 



3846 MISSING 



