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A NOTE ON THE DISTEIBUTION AND HOSTS OF IXODES 
PILOSUS HOWABDI, Neum. 
By C. W. Howard, Pretoria. 
^ (Bead June 17, 1908.) 
In the preceding article Professor Neumann has described a new tick 
from the Transvaal. Some notes on its distribution and hosts may be of 
interest to those making a study of this group. 
The first specimens were sent to me by Dr. Copland, the District 
Surgeon at Leydsdorp ; at about the same time Dr. Theiler brought 
specimens from Durban. It was from these specimens that Professor 
Neumann described the variety. Since that time I have taken specimens 
from the following places in the Transvaal : Lenokana Location, Marico 
District ; Pilansberg Mountains, Eustenburg District ; Pienaars River, 
Pretoria District ; Ivy Mine, Moodies, Barberton District ; and the 
Zoutpansberg Mountains in the Zoutpansberg District. 
Mr. Lounsbury, in one of his reports, states that I. pilosus is only 
found in Cape Colony in places which are very humid, such as kloofs 
containing a stream of running water, or in the vicinity of vleis. 
Apparently I. pilosus lioivardi is not limited in its distribution to these 
conditions. None of the above-mentioned places can be considered as 
humid ; on the contrary, the majority of them are more or less dry, unless 
we can consider Durban as humid, and some of the localities — such as 
Leydsdorp and the Zoutpansberg Mountains — are ver^ arid. 
Most of the localities are in the low and bush veld, but those places on 
the high veld (above 4,000 feet), where the tick is common, are in those 
parts which are covered with bush, and the tick is apparently lacking in 
the high grass veld. 
The principal host is the dog, but at the Ivy Mine, Moodies, Barberton, 
a few specimens were found on a cat, and a few on a hedgehog at Pienaars 
River. 
