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Psyche 
[June-Sept. 
aphus scriptus sylvaticus (H. H. Curson) and off Tragel- 
aphus angasii ; Umfolosi, off Sylvicapra grimmia) White 
Umfolosi River, off Tragelaphus scriptus sylvaticus and 
Kobus ellipsiprymnus (H. H. Curson) ; Lower Umfolosi 
River, off Tragelaphus angasii, and T. scriptus sylvaticus 
(H. H. Curson) ; Umkuzi River, off Tragelaphus scriptus 
sylvaticus (H. H. Curson). — Cape Province: Port Eliza- 
beth, without host (Brit. Mus.) ; if the locality label is to 
be trusted, this specimen was possibly taken from some 
animal in captivity. 
Host Relationships. — There are now reliable records of 
E. paradoxus from nine distinct antelope hosts. The bush- 
buck, Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas) , is by far the most com- 
mon host. It is found over practically the whole of Africa 
south of the Sahara, in several races. G. M. Allen (1939) 
recognizes 27 valid races and lists many more synonyms. 
The nyala, Tragelaphus angasii Gray, is restricted to south- 
eastern Africa. The kudus are closely related to the fore- 
going, from which some authors do not separate them 
generically. The lesser kudu, Strepsiceros imberbis Blyth, 
is restricted to Northeast Africa. The greater kudu, Strep- 
siceros strepsiceros (Pallas), occurs throughout the savanna 
areas of Africa south of the Sahara. Both are frequent hosts 
of E. paradoxus. The duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia (Lin- 
naeus), also a common host, has about the same distribution 
as the greater kudu. The following four, hosts are perhaps 
more accidental: the reedbuck, Redunca arundinum (Bod- 
daert) ; the eland, Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus Lydek- 
ker; the impalla, Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein) ; and 
the waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby). These an- 
telopes are found in the savannas of South, Central and 
East Africa. The two anomalous records of warthog and 
owl seem wholly unreliable. 
Distribution. — E. paradoxus is reliably known in the 
wild state from Ethiopia, Uganda, the eastern and south- 
eastern Belgian Congo, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Terri- 
tory, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, 
Angola, Bechuanaland, Transvaal, Portuguese East Africa 
and Zululand. It is definitely an insect of the savanna and 
plains country of East, Central and South Africa, avoiding 
