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states that he saw, in the collections of the Berlin Museum, specimens of A. 
peters Karsch, labelled ‘‘ Liberia.” As this tick is otherwise known from 
eastern tropical Africa only, the locality label must have been due to an error. 
Neumann (1913, ‘Voy. Alluaud et Jeannel Afr. Orient., Rés. Scientif., Arach- 
nides, II, Ixodidae,’ p. 29) also mentions incidentally that Amblyomma crena- 
twm Neumann has been recorded from Liberia, off Rhinoceros bicornis. Since 
there is no rhinoceros in Liberia, the occurrence there of A. crenatum is highly 
improbable. 
In the Belgian Congo the genus Amblyomma is represented by eleven spe- 
cies: A. pomposum Donitz (found on hartebeest, eland, roan and sable ante- 
lopes, and zebra, in Katanga), A. variegatum (Fabricius), A. cohaerens Donitz, 
A. eburneum Gerstaecker (specimens in the Congo Museum, which I collected 
off buffalo at Kongolo, were identified as that species by Gedoelst), A. paulo- 
punctatum Neumann (collected at Medje by H. Lang and J. P. Chapin), A. 
splendidum Giebel, A. cuneatum Neumann, A. tholloni Neumann, A. marmoreum 
Koch, A. nuttalli Donitz (found on a turtle, Kinixys belliana Gray, at Mahagi, 
by Dr. H. Schouteden), and A. petersit Karsch (on rhinoceros, probably in the 
Lulua district; the locality Misisi River is in Uganda, not in the Belgian 
Congo). Nuttall (1916, Bull. Ent. Res., VI, 4, p. 337, fig. 43) and Schwetz 
(1927, Rev. Zool. Afric., XV, 1, p. 91) also list A. hebraewm Koch, which is, 
however, an East and South African species not likely to be found in the Belgian 
Congo. The specimens recorded as that species from Boma and the Upper 
Congo, most probably were A. splendidum. 
Nymphs and larvae of undetermined species of Amblyomma were collected 
in the Belgian Congo from the following hosts: waterbuck, Kobus defassa 
Riippell, Mai Ivwi, near Ruchuru; topi, Damaliscus korrigum jimela Matschie, 
Ishasa River; and bushbuck, TV’ragelaphus scriptus (Pallas), Ruchuru River; 
also off a squirrel, Huxerus erythropus maestus Thomas, at Paiata, Liberia. 
Mr. A. Loveridge found hexapod larvae of this genus on a baboon, Papio 
cynocephalus (Linnaeus), at Kilosa, Tanganyika Territory. 
Aponomma exornatum (C. L. Koch) 
Amblyomma exornatum C. L. Koch, 1844, Arch. f. Naturgesch., X, 1, p. 231 (7 9; Christmas Bay, 
South Africa). 
Aponomma exornatum Neumann, 1899, Mém. Soc. Zool. France, XII, p. 186, fig. 40 (7 ¢); 1911, 
‘Das Tierreich, Lief. 26, Acarina, Ixodidae,’ p. 94 (7 @). Nuttall, 1916, Bull. Ent. Res., 
VI, 4, p. 339, fig. 47 (9). Donitz, 1910, Denkschr. Med.-Naturw. Ges. Jena, XVI, p. 448 
(co Q). 
Ixodes flavomaculatus H. Lucas, 1846, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) IV, p. 56, Pl. 1, figs. l-la(o 9; 
off a Python from Senegal). 
Ixodes varani R. T. Lewis, 1892, Jl. Quekett Micr. Club, (2) V, p. 14, Pl. 1, figs. 1-8 (7; Natal, off 
Varanus). 
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY.— Amani, Usambara Mts., several males, females, 
and nymphs, off a female Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus), November 29, 1926 
(Arthur Loveridge). Kilosa, off the same host, March 25, 1921, and off Varanus 
exanthemicus ocellatus Riippell, May 12, 1922 (Arthur Loveridge). 
